Chinese firms in Vietnam: Investment motives, institutional environment and human resource challenges

Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 205-226

  Cooke, Fang Lee ^a   Lin, Zhaohong ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b HAINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese MNCs; FDI; HRM; Institutional factors; Labour disputes; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872420261     PISSN: 10384111     EISSN: 17447941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7941.2011.00013.x     Document Type: Article

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