Success or failure? Personality, family, and intercultural orientation as determinants of expatriate managers' success

Zeitschrift fur Sozialpsychologie

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 209-218

  Stierle, Christian ^b   Van Dick, Rolf ^a   Wagner, Ulrich ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Expatriate managers; Family support; Intercultural effectiveness; International assignments; Personality; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036948603     PISSN: 00443514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024//0044-3514.33.4.209     Document Type: Review

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