Selection for international assignments

Human Resource Management Review

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 251-262

  Caligiuri, Paula ^a   Tarique, Ibraiz ^b   Jacobs, Rick ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Expatriate Selection; International Assignments; International Selection Systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649531910     PISSN: 10534822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrmr.2009.02.001     Document Type: Article

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