A cross-national comparison of cultural value orientations of Indian, Polish, Russian and American employees

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1076-1094

  Woldu, Habte G ^a   Budhwar, Pawan S ^a   Parkes, Carole ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Cross cultural HRM; Cultural value orientations; Emerging markets; India; Poland; Russia; USA

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748372724     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585190600697364     Document Type: Article

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