Self-initiated academic expatriates: Inherent demographics and reasons to expatriate

European Management Review

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 169-179

  Selmer, Jan ^a   Lauring, Jakob ^a  

^a AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

academics; demographics; reasons to expatriate; self initiated expatriates

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958518645     PISSN: 17404754     EISSN: 17404762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/emr.2010.15     Document Type: Article

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