Variations in adoption of workplace work-family arrangements in Europe: The influence of welfare-state regime and organizational characteristics

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 23, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 2785-2808

  den Dulk, Laura ^a   Peters, Pascale ^b   Poutsma, Erik ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

business case; Europe; institutional pressure; welfare state regimes; work family policies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860790738     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2012.676925     Document Type: Article

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