Expatriate practices in German, Japanese, U.K., and U.S. multinational companies: A comparative survey of changes

Human Resource Management

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 153-171

  Tungli, Zsuzsanna ^a   Peiperl, Maury ^a  

^a IMD ^*

Author keywords

Careers; Human capital; Internal labor market; International HRM; Recruitment; Reward systems; Strategic HR; Supervisor subordinate relations; Training and development; Work family conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 59449094859     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.20271     Document Type: Article

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