Selecting managers for cross-border assignments: Building value into the process

International Journal of Management Reviews

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 461-483

  Fish, Alan ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 0000279034     PISSN: 14608545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2370.00023     Document Type: Article

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