Alliance forms and human resource issues, implications, and significance

Handbook of Strategic Alliances

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 219-240

  Schuler, Randall S ^a,b   Tarique, Ibraiz ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Graduate School of Business Administration   (Switzerland)

^c PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84951107119     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4135/9781452231075.n12     Document Type: Chapter

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