The roles of expatriates' spouses among dual career couples

Cross Cultural Management

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 185-197

  Mäkelä, Liisa ^a   Känsälä, Marja ^b   Suutari, Vesa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VAASA   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Dual career couples; Expatriates; Spouses

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955694197     PISSN: 13527606     EISSN: 17586089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13527601111126012     Document Type: Article

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