The Place of International Human Resource Management in International Business

Management International Review

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 303-322

  Welch, Denice ^a   Björkman, Ingmar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Expatriates; Field evolution; International assignees; Multinational HRM; Non expatriate workforce

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931576569     PISSN: 09388249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11575-014-0226-3     Document Type: Article

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