International human resource management: Overcoming disciplinary sectarianism

Employee Relations

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 595-612

  Keating, Mary ^a   Thompson, Karen ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cross cultural management,; Human resource management; Multinational companies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986129853     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425450410562191     Document Type: Article

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