Provision and adequacy of corporate support to male expatriate spouses an exploratory study

Personnel Review

Volumn 32, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 9-21

  Selmer, Jan ^a   Leung, Alicia S M ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Corporate policy; Expatriates; Hong Kong; Men; Spouses

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037217333     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480310454691     Document Type: Article

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