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Say No to Licensing: It Is Both Impractical and Immoral

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2017

Edwin A. Locke*
Affiliation:
University of Maryland (Emeritus)
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Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Edwin A. Locke, 2415 Norwalk Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90041. E-mail: elocke@rhsmith.umd.edu

Extract

I have written on this subject in the past (Locke, 2009; Locke, Mode, & Binswanger, 1980), but here I will both reiterate and expand on what I have said before.

Type
Commentaries
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2017 

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