International experience and academic careers: What do academics have to say?

Personnel Review

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Richardson, Julia ^a,b   McKenna, Steve ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Stansfield College   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Academic staff; Careers; Higher education; International organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242307176     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480310498710     Document Type: Review

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