Foreign firms in China: Modelling HRM in a toy manufacturing corporation

Human Resource Management Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 31-52

  Cooke, Fang Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84878929691     PISSN: 09545395     EISSN: 17488583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-8583.2004.tb00125.x     Document Type: Article

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