Human resource management – a survey of practices within family and non-family firms

Journal of European Industrial Training

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 310-320

  Reid, Renee S ^a   Adams, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Family firms; Human resource management; Small to medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986104569     PISSN: 03090590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03090590110401782     Document Type: Article

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