Career and international assignment fit: Toward an integrative model of success

Human Resource Management

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-25

  Cerdin, Jean Luc ^a   Le Pargneux, Marie ^b  

^a ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CORSE   (France)

Author keywords

Career; Expatriation; International assignment success; Repatriation

Indexed keywords

EID: 59449110945     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.20264     Document Type: Article

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