Human resource management and performance: Lessons from the Netherlands

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1107-1125

  Boselie, Paul ^a   Paauwe, Jaap ^c   Jansen, Paul ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NONE

Author keywords

HRM; Institutionalism; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345860865     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585190110068331     Document Type: Article

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