Employed under different rules: The complexities of working across organizational boundaries

Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 413-427

  Rubery, Jill ^a   Marchington, Mick ^a   Grimshaw, Damian ^a   Carroll, Marilyn ^a   Pass, Sarah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Careers; Employment relationship; Hierarchy; HRM consistency; Inter organizational relations; Networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 73949089249     PISSN: 17521378     EISSN: 17521386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cjres/rsp017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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