Building sustainable organisations through restructuring: the role of organisational character in France and India

International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 2-16

  Som, Ashok ^a  

^a ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

change; human resource management; organisational character; Restructuring

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845682744     PISSN: 14656612     EISSN: 17415160     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJHRDM.2003.001041     Document Type: Article

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