The role of the senior HR executive in Japan and the United States: Employment relations, corporate governance, and values

Industrial Relations

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 207-241

  Jacoby, Sanford M ^a   Nason, Emily M ^a   Saguchi, Kazuro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN RESOURCE; LABOR RELATIONS;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 17144430094     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0019-8676.2005.00382.x     Document Type: Article

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