Global HRM: Aspects of a research agenda

Personnel Review

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 5-21

  Brewster, Chris ^a   Suutari, Vesa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VAASA   (Finland)

Author keywords

Careers; Expatriates; Globalization; Human resource management; Knowledge management

Indexed keywords

EID: 13844297162     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480510571851     Document Type: Review

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