The impact of international experience on objective and subjective career success in early careers

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 24, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 3438-3456

  Biemann, Torsten ^a   Braakmann, Nils ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

career success; expatriates; longitudinal; repatriates

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882243393     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2013.775176     Document Type: Article

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