One company, four factories: Coordinating employment flexibility practices with local trade unions

European Journal of Industrial Relations

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 67-88

  Kahancová, Marta ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ASSR   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Embeddedness; Employment flexibility; Multinationals; Social interaction; Workplace trade unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846995597     PISSN: 09596801     EISSN: 14617129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959680107073968     Document Type: Article

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