Self-initiated foreign expatriates versus assigned expatriates: Two distinct types of international careers?

Journal of Managerial Psychology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 430-448

  Biemann, Torsten ^a   Andresen, Maike ^b  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Careers; Expatriates; Germany; Globalization; Managers; Self development

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951491200     PISSN: 02683946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02683941011035313     Document Type: Article

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