HRM in the Hungarian SME sector

Employee Relations

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 262-280

  Richbell, Suzanne ^a   Szerb, László ^b   Vitai, Zsuzsanna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Human resource management; Hungary; Small to medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951447445     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425451011038799     Document Type: Article

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