The “new” European social model: the end of the search for an orthodoxy or another false dawn?

Employee Relations

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 445-462

  Sisson, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employee relations; Europe; Social economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986134879     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425459910292098     Document Type: Review

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