Role of cultural self-knowledge in successful expatriation

Singapore Management Review

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-26

  Varner, Iris I ^a   Palmer, Teresa M ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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