Flexibility and labour management: Chinese manufacturing enterprises in the 1990s

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 183-196

  Benson, John ^b   Debroux, Phillipe ^a   Yuasa, Masae ^a   Zhu, Ying ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Employment relations; Flexibility; Human resource management; Industrial relations; Labour management relations; Work relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009933182     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/095851900339819     Document Type: Article

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