Cultivating culture in greenfields: The Heinz Wattie's case

Personnel Review

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 317-330

  Hursthouse, Paul ^a   Kolb, Darl ^b  

^a EASTERN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Corporate culture; Employee attitudes; Employment law; Industrial relations; Management culture; New Zealand

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035644386     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480110385960     Document Type: Article

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