Multinational companies, institutional environments and the diffusion of industrial relations practices

Challenges for European Management in a Global Context: Experiences From Britain and Germany

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 143-164

  Tempel, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230510180     Document Type: Chapter

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