Staffing venture capital firms' international operations

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 186-205

  Pruthi, Sarika ^a   Wright, Mike ^b,c   Meyer, Klaus E ^d,e  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^e Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

International knowledge sharing; International staffing; Knowledge based view; Venture capital firms

Indexed keywords

EID: 59249102353     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585190802528649     Document Type: Article

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