High Commitment Work Systems in Chinese Organizations: A Preliminary Measure

Management and Organization Review

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 403-422

  Xiao, Zhixing ^a   Björkman, Ingmar ^b  

^a CHINA EUROPE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (China)

^b HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

China; high commitment work system; scale development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992962144     PISSN: 17408776     EISSN: 17408784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8784.2006.00049.x     Document Type: Article

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