Varieties of multinationals: Adapting employment practices in Central Eastern Europe

Industrial Relations

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 489-511

  Meardi, Guglielmo ^a   Marginson, Paul ^a   Fichter, Michael ^b   Frybes, Marcin ^c   Stanojević, Miroslav ^d   Tóth, András ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c Instytut Adama Mickiewicza

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^e INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; EMPLOYMENT; LABOR MARKET; LABOR POLICY; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUNGARY; POLAND; SLOVENIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 65649138754     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2009.00570.x     Document Type: Article

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