The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study

@article{Pluchino2010ThePP,
  title={The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study},
  author={Alessandro Pluchino and Andrea Rapisarda and Cesare Garofalo},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2010},
  volume={abs/0907.0455}
}
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