Human Resource Management in Multinational Enterprises: Evidence From a Late Industrializing Economy

Management International Review

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 361-380

  McDonnell, Anthony ^a   Lavelle, Jonathan ^b   Gunnigle, Patrick ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Best practice; Globalization; Human resource management; Ireland; Late industrializing; Multinational enterprise

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902365435     PISSN: 09388249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11575-014-0202-y     Document Type: Article

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