“Looking out of the blackhole”: Nonunion relations in an SME

Employee Relations

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 251-266

  Dundon, Tony ^a   Grugulis, Irena ^a   Wilkinson, Adrian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employee relations; Management styles; Small firms; Trade unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986097373     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425459910273099     Document Type: Article

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