Struggling to organize across national borders: The case of global resource management in professional service firms

Human Relations

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 829-850

  Boussebaa, Mehdi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comparative and cross cultural management; Conflict; Human resources and industrial relations; Institutional theory; Strategic and international management

Indexed keywords

EID: 65649102228     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726709104544     Document Type: Article

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