Varieties of firm: Complementarity and bounded diversity

Journal of Economic Issues

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 239-258

  Wood, Geoffrey ^a   Croucher, Richard ^b   Brewster, Chris ^c   Collings, David ^d   Brookes, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; HRM; Internal diversity; Varieties of capitalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650789639     PISSN: 00213624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/JEI0021-3624430111     Document Type: Article

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