The impact of business ownership change on employee relations: Buy-outs in the UK and The Netherlands

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 345-365

  Bruining, Hans ^a   Boselie, Paul ^b   Wright, Mike ^c   Bacon, Nicolas ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agency theory; Buy outs; Comparative analysis; Employee relations; HRM; Institutional theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 17044408750     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0958519042000339543     Document Type: Article

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