Expatriates' ethnicity and their effectiveness: "similarity attraction" or "inverse resonance"?

Psychology and Developing Societies

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 265-282

  Carr, Stuart C ^a   Ehiobuche, Ihfanyi ^a   Rugimbana, Robert ^a   Munro, Don ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

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EID: 0007226519     PISSN: 09713336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/097133369600800205     Document Type: Article

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