Weathering the storm? Multinational companies and human resource management through the global financial crisis

International Journal of Manpower

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 214-231

  Gunnigle, Patrick ^a   Lavelle, Jonathan ^a   Monaghan, Sinéad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Global financial crisis; HR function; Human resource management; Ireland; Multinational companies; Shared service centres

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878881371     PISSN: 01437720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJM-04-2013-0078     Document Type: Article

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