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The fatal flaws of diversity and the business case for ethnic minorities

Queen Mary, University of London,m.a.noon{at}qmul.ac.uk

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Work, Employment & Society, Vol. 21, No. 4, 773-784 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0950017007082886


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