Managing human resources in Africa: Emergent market challenges

The Routledge Companion to Strategic Human Resource Management

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 462-475

  Horwitz, Frank M ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85076071601     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203889015-41     Document Type: Chapter

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