Transferring subsidiary knowledge to global headquarters: Subsidiary senior executives' perceptions of the role of HR configurations in the development of knowledge stocks

Human Resource Management

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 531-554

  Yamao, Sachiko ^a   de Cieri, Helen ^b   Hutchings, Kate ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Human capital; Human resource management (HRM); Knowledge stocks; Knowledge transfer; Social capital; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77049084301     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.20297     Document Type: Article

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