Sustainability and human resource management: Reasoning and applications on corporate websites

European Journal of International Management

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 419-438

  Ehnert, Ina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

HRM; Human resource management; Sustainability; Website analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 73149108589     PISSN: 17516757     EISSN: 17516765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/EJIM.2009.028848     Document Type: Article

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