"Third-culture kids": Future business expatriates?

Personnel Review

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Selmer, Jan ^a   Lam, Hon ^b  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Expatriates; Human resourcing; International business; National cultures; World economy

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042857716     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480410539506     Document Type: Review

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