Between Boston and Berlin: American MNCs and the shifting contours of industrial relations in Ireland

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 240-261

  Collings, D G ^a   Gunnigle, P ^b   Morley, M J ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Change; Human resources and industrial relations; Hybridization; Ireland; MNCs; National business system; US

Indexed keywords

EID: 39749167707     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585190701799812     Document Type: Article

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