Modelling and predicting the performance of cross border managers

Personnel Review

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 432-447

  Cogin, Julie ^a   Fish, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Expatriates; Globalization; Managers; Performance management; Process analysis; Selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953568021     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483481011045407     Document Type: Article

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