Expatriation willingness in Asia: The importance of host-country characteristics and employees' role commitments

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 23, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 3414-3433

  Kim, Jisun ^a   Froese, Fabian Jintae ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

expatriation willingness; host country characteristics; Korea; role commitment; role identity salience theory; work family conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863889487     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2011.637068     Document Type: Article

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