A longitudinal examination of HRM in a human resources offshoring (HRO) organization operating from India

Journal of World Business

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 223-231

  Pereira, Vijay ^a   Anderson, Valerie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business process outsourcing; Human resource management; Human resource offshoring; Human resource outsourcing; India

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857237442     PISSN: 10909516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2011.04.009     Document Type: Article

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