The role of family considerations in an expatriate majority environment

Team Performance Management

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 309-323

  Schoepp, Kevin ^a   Forstenlechner, Ingo ^b  

^a ZAYED UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Expatriates; Family; Middle East

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956152707     PISSN: 13527592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13527591011071368     Document Type: Article

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