The cultural boundedness of theory and practice in HRD?

Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 25-44

  Mcguire, David ^a   O’Donnell, David ^b   Garavan, Thomas N ^a   Saha, Sudhir K ^c   Murphy, Joe ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b Intellectual Capital Research Institute of Ireland   (Ireland)

^c MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human resource management; National cultures; Personnel policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993074089     PISSN: 13527606     EISSN: 17586089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13527600210797389     Document Type: Review

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