HRM outsourcing: The impact of organisational size and HRM strategic involvement

Personnel Review

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 742-760

  Sheehan, Cathy ^a   Cooper, Brian K ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Human resource management; Organization types; Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053056735     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483481111169661     Document Type: Article

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