Boundary spanning behaviors of expatriates

Journal of World Business

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 285-296

  Au, Kevin Y ^a   Fukuda, John ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Boundary spanning; Expatriate; Hong Kong; Social network

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036394185     PISSN: 10909516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1090-9516(02)00095-0     Document Type: Article

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