Individualism-collectivism as predictors of BPO employee attitudes toward union membership in India

Asia Pacific Journal of Management

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 93-118

  Sarkar, Santanu ^a  

^a XLRI XAVIER SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (India)

Author keywords

Business process outsourcing (BPO); Horizontal collectivism (HC); Horizontal individualism (HI); Individualism collectivism; Organizational collectivism (OC); Organizational individualism (OI); Vertical collectivism (VC); Vertical individualism (VI)

Indexed keywords

EID: 57849096639     PISSN: 02174561     EISSN: 15729958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10490-007-9080-1     Document Type: Article

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