Trade union recruitment: Strategic options?

Employee Relations

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 274-291

  McCracken, Martin ^a   Sanderson, Michael ^a  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Management strategy; Recruitment; Small to medium sized enterprises; Trade unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986145255     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425450410530655     Document Type: Article

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