The changing nature of the traditional expatriate psychological contract

Employee Relations

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 56-73

  Pate, Judy ^a   Scullion, Hugh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Expatriates; Human resource management; Psychological contracts; Qualitative methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 71949085433     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425451011002761     Document Type: Article

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