Making their own way: International experience through self-initiated foreign assignments

Journal of World Business

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 417-436

  Suutari, Vesa ^a   Brewster, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VAASA   (Finland)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0000004235     PISSN: 10909516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1090-9516(00)00046-8     Document Type: Article

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