Flexible automation technologies and work organization:the case of Turkish engineering industries

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Mendeş, Funda
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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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F. Mendeş, “Flexible automation technologies and work organization:the case of Turkish engineering industries,” Middle East Technical University, 1994.
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