Framing human resource management: The importance of national institutional environments to what management does (and should do)

Handbook of Institutional Approaches to International Business

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 115-141

  Godard, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4337/9781849807692.00011     Document Type: Chapter

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