Cultural similarity and adjustment of expatriate academics

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 429-436

  Selmer, Jan ^a   Lauring, Jakob ^a  

^a AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Cultural dissimilarity; Cultural similarity; Expatriate academics

Indexed keywords

EID: 67849132262     PISSN: 01471767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2009.06.007     Document Type: Article

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