A comparative study of organizational context factors for managerial career progress: Focusing on Chinese state-owned, Sino-foreign joint venture and Japanese corporations

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 15, Issue 4-5, 2004, Pages 750-774

  Chen, Ziguang ^a   Wakabayashi, Mitsuru ^b   Takeuchi, Norihiko ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b AICHI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

In house training; Managerial career progress; Performance based promotion; The environment for career progress

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442430266     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0958519042000192933     Document Type: Article

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