Career anchors: A comparison between organization-assigned and self-initiated expatriates

Thunderbird International Business Review

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 287-299

  Cerdin, Jean Luc ^a   Le Pargneux, Marie ^b  

^a ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CORSE   (France)

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EID: 77953734915     PISSN: 10964762     EISSN: 15206874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tie.20350     Document Type: Article

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