Expatriate or local? Predicting Japanese, subsidiary expatriate staffing strategies

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1607-1621

  Widmier, Scott ^a   Brouthers, Lance Eliot ^a   Beamish, Paul W ^b  

^a KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dunning's OLI framework; Expatriate; International; Japanese multinational corporations; Staffing; Subsidiary staffing

Indexed keywords

EID: 53249093793     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585190802294986     Document Type: Article

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