Strategy, power and negotiation: Social control and expatriate managers in a German multinational corporation

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 399-413

  Moore, Fiona ^a  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Expatriates; HRM; Social control; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645764170     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585190500521359     Document Type: Article

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