Adjustment of Chinese mainland vs. Western business expatriates assigned to Hong Kong

International Journal of Manpower

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 553-565

  Selmer, Jan ^a   Ebrahimi, Bahman P ^b   Mingtao, Li ^c  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^c China Merchants Bank   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chinese; Expatriates; Hong kong; National cultures

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342656514     PISSN: 01437720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01437720010379006     Document Type: Article

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