Personality traits and cross-cultural competence of Chinese expatriate managers: A socio-analytic and institutional perspective

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 24, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 3812-3830

  Wang, Dan ^a   Freeman, Susan ^b   Zhu, Cherrie Jiuhua ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

China; cross cultural competence; expatriate; institutions; personality traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885053198     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2013.778314     Document Type: Article

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