Equal opportunities practices and enterprise performance: A comparative investigation on Australian and British data

International Labour Review

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 471-505

  Pérotin, Virginie ^a   Robinson, Andrew ^a   Loundes, Joanne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUITY; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; LEGISLATION; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 3242882888     PISSN: 00207780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1564-913X.2003.tb00541.x     Document Type: Article

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