Immigrant employee effects in international strategy: An exploratory study of international service firms

International Marketing Review

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 652-675

  Chung, Henry F L ^a   Enderwick, Peter ^b   Naruemitmongkonsuk, Jinda ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Employees; Immigrants; Knowledge transfer; New Zealand; Services

Indexed keywords

EID: 78349245875     PISSN: 02651335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02651331011088272     Document Type: Article

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