Building flexibility into multi-national human resource strategy: A study of four South African multi-national enterprises

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 829-844

  Wöcke, Albert ^a   Bendixen, Mike ^a   Rijamampianina, Rasoava ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Emerging markets; International human resource strategy; MNE; South Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249746799     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585190701249115     Document Type: Article

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