An empirical analysis of managers' adjustment to working in multinational project teams in the pipeline and plant construction sector

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2252-2267

  Puck, Jonas F ^a   Mohr, Alexander T ^b   Rygl, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b BRADFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Cross cultural sensitivity; Multi cultural teams; Project teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 57849103937     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585190802479488     Document Type: Article

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