Workforce nationalization in the UAE: Image versus integration

Education, Business and Society: Contemporary Middle Eastern Issues

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 82-91

  Forstenlechner, Ingo ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Human capital; Human resource management; Nationalization; United Arab Emirates

Indexed keywords

EID: 71949089943     PISSN: 17537983     EISSN: 17537991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17537980810890275     Document Type: Article

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