Exploring the mutual interaction of societal culture and human resource management practices: Evidence from 19 countries

Employee Relations

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 495-509

  Papalexandris, Nancy ^a   Panayotopoulou, Leda ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Human resource management; National cultures

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986066948     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425450410550473     Document Type: Article

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