Human Resource Management in Greece: Have the colours of culture faded away?

International Journal of Cross Cultural Management

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 59-76

  Myloni, Barbara ^a   Harzing, Anne Wil ^b   Mirza, Hafiz ^c  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c BRADFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Greece; Human Resource Management; Multinational companies; National culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 8844269233     PISSN: 14705958     EISSN: 17412838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470595804041527     Document Type: Article

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