North American MNCs and their HR policies in liberal and coordinated market economies

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2024-2040

  Parry, Emma ^a   Dickmann, Michael ^a   Morley, Michael ^b  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Localization of HR practices; Multi national corporations; Varieties of capitalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 56749171090     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585190802404262     Document Type: Article

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