Expatriate compensation packages: What do employees prefer?

Cross Cultural Management

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 236-256

  Warneke, Doris ^a   Schneider, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Career satisfaction; Employee behaviour; Expatriates; Remuneration

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955687182     PISSN: 13527606     EISSN: 17586089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13527601111126049     Document Type: Article

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