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Dore , 1973, op.cit.

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Pascale Athos , op. cit., p. 183.

Ouchi , op. cit.

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Yoshino , op. cit.

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Freeman Richard B. Medoff James L. , What Do Unions Do? (New York, NY: Basic Books, 1984), Chapter 9.

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Hirschman Albert O. , Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970).

Freeman Medoff , op. cit., p. 139.

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