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Human Resource Strategies for Managing Back-Office Employees in Subsidiary Operations: The Case of Two Investment Multinational Banks in Tanzania

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For the last three decades, research in the area of international business studies has continued to examine the extent of management and organizational influences within multinational companies (MNCs) abroad.

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  1. University of Saskatchewan, Canada

    Aloysius Newenham-Kahindi

  2. University of Nottingham, UK

    Ken N. Kamoche

  3. Loughborough University, UK

    Amon Chizema

  4. Warwick University, UK

    Kamel Mellahi

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Newenham-Kahindi, A. (2013). Human Resource Strategies for Managing Back-Office Employees in Subsidiary Operations: The Case of Two Investment Multinational Banks in Tanzania. In: Newenham-Kahindi, A., Kamoche, K.N., Chizema, A., Mellahi, K. (eds) Effective People Management in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137337177_9

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