HRM practices and MNC knowledge transfer

Personnel Review

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 125-144

  Minbaeva, Dana B ^a  

^a Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Human resource management; Knowledge management; Multinational companies

Indexed keywords

EID: 13844267050     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480510571914     Document Type: Article

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