You're from where? The influence of distance factors on New Zealand expatriates' cross-cultural adjustment

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 21, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 2694-2715

  Jenkins, Emma M ^a   Mockaitis, Audra I ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cultural distance; Expatriate adjustment; Objective distance; Perceptual accuracy; Psychic distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649830961     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2010.528653     Document Type: Article

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