The Penrose effect: "Excess" expatriates in multinational enterprises

Management International Review

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 221-239

  Goerzen, Anthony ^a   Beamish, Paul W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Expatriates; Human resources; Multinational corporations; Organizational slack; Penrose

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247280948     PISSN: 09388249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11575-007-0013-5     Document Type: Article

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