The configuration of employee retention practices in multinational corporations' foreign subsidiaries

International Business Review

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 676-687

  Reiche, B Sebastian ^a  

^a IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Employee retention; Home and host country effects; MNC subsidiaries; Strategic HRM; Transfer of HR practices

Indexed keywords

EID: 56949099845     PISSN: 09695931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2008.09.004     Document Type: Article

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