Virtualization: Boundaryless organizations and electronic human resource management

Managing Human Resources in Europe: A Thematic Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 235-255

  Kabst, Rüdiger ^a   Strohmeier, Stefan ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 84866355797     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203696736     Document Type: Chapter

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