National culture and union membership: A cultural-cognitive perspective

Relations Industrielles

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 507-529

  Posthuma, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Collectivism; Performance orientation; Unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449119214     PISSN: 0034379X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7202/038554ar     Document Type: Article

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