How do managers conceptualise international human resource policy?: presenting and validating a typology of human resource management identity

International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 16-40

  Takeda, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA   (United States)

Author keywords

human resource management; human resource policy; human resource strategy; international business; international human resource management; national identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447564544     PISSN: 14656612     EISSN: 17415160     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJHRDM.2005.005983     Document Type: Article

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