Coming home? Adjustment of Hong Kong Chinese expatriate business managers assigned to the People's Republic of China

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 447-465

  Selmer, Jan ^a   Shiu, Lewis S C ^b  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Adjustment problems; Anticipatory adjustment; Common cultural heritage; Hong kong chinese expatriate managers; In country adjustment; Prc assignment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033131546     PISSN: 01471767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0147-1767(99)00005-X     Document Type: Article

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