A comparative study of managers' career factors in selected EU countries

Transformations in Business and Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 84-97

  Zakarevičius, Povilas ^a   Žukauskas, Pranas ^a  

^a VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Career; Employment; Germany; Human resources; Malta; Managers; Selected EU countries: The UK; Spain and Lithuania

Indexed keywords

EID: 47149095932     PISSN: 16484460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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