Career success of immigrant professionals: Stock and flow of their career capital

International Journal of Manpower

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 472-488

  Fang, Tony ^a   Novicevic, Milorad M ^b   Zikic, Jelena ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Careers; Human resource management; Immigrants

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349661932     PISSN: 01437720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01437720910977661     Document Type: Article

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