Organizational commitment across cultures: The impact of antecedents on Korean employees

Human Relations

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 977-992

  Sommer, Steven M ^a   Bae, Seung Hyun ^b   Luthans, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Antecedents to Korean commitment; Commitment across cultures; Cross cultural organizational behavior; Korean employee analysis; Organizational commitment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040655768     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001872679604900705     Document Type: Article

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