From a paternalistic model towards what? HRM trends in Korea and Taiwan

Personnel Review

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 700-722

  Bae, Johngseok ^a   Chen, Shyh Jer ^b   Rowley, Chris ^c  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comparison; Human resource management; Korea; Local firms; Longitudinal; Multinational companies; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053071931     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483481111169643     Document Type: Article

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