Highly skilled migrant women: A career development framework

Journal of Management Development

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 142-158

  van den Bergh, Riana ^a   Du Plessis, Yvonne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Career development; Highly skilled migrant professionals; Self initiated expatriate women; The Netherlands; Women career success

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856394123     PISSN: 02621711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02621711211199485     Document Type: Article

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