Subsidiary staffing and initiative-taking in multinational corporations: A socio-political perspective

Personnel Review

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 600-621

  Dörrenbächer, Christoph ^a   Geppert, Mike ^b  

^a BERLIN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND LAW   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Careers; Chief executives; France; Germany; Multinational companies; Subsidiaries

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956065233     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483481011064163     Document Type: Article

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