In focus: Hungarian and Central Eastern European characteristics of human resource management - An international comparative survey

Journal of East European Management Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 9-47

  Karoliny, Zsuzsa ^a   Farkas, Ferenc ^a   Poór, József ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Central Eastern Europe; Comparative human resource management (CHRM); Convergences divergences; International comparison

Indexed keywords

EID: 76849113405     PISSN: 09496181     EISSN: 18620019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5771/0949-6181-2009-1-9     Document Type: Article

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