Happily (mal)adjusted: Cosmopolitan identity and expatriate adjustment

International Journal of Research in Marketing

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 337-345

  Grinstein, Amir ^a,b   Wathieu, Luc ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b VU University   (Netherlands)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer identity; Cosmopolitanism; Expatriate adjustment; Horizon effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870295310     PISSN: 01678116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijresmar.2012.03.003     Document Type: Article

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