HRM and the pursuit of a service culture: Managerial encounters with competing discourses

Employee Relations

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 71-85

  Francis, Helen ^a   D'Annunzio Green, Norma ^a  

^a Edinburgh Napier University   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catering industry; Culture; Human resource management

Indexed keywords

EID: 18844454788     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425450510569319     Document Type: Article

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