Self-initiated career characteristics of danish expatriated engineers

Self-Initiated Expatriation: Individual, Organizational, and National Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 221-234

  Andersen, Torben ^a   Rasmussen, Erling ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

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EID: 84883332554     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203111505     Document Type: Chapter

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