Birds of different feathers? The relationship between multicultural personality dimensions and foreign language mastery in business professionals working in a Dutch agricultural multinational

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 540-553

  Korzilius, Hubert ^a   van Hooft, Andreu ^a   Planken, Brigitte ^a   Hendrix, Christa ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Van Zandbeek communicatie and creatie   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Business practitioners; Foreign language mastery; Intercultural effectiveness; Multicultural Personality Questionnaire (MPQ); Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052833933     PISSN: 01471767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2011.02.018     Document Type: Article

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