The emergent enterprise union? A conceptual and comparative analysis

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1365-1382

  Benson, John ^a   Gospel, Howard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collective bargaining; Comparative unionism; Enterprise unions; Member identification; Union governance; Union resources

Indexed keywords

EID: 48249084977     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585190802110281     Document Type: Article

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