Volunteering abroad: A career-related analysis of international development aid workers

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 183-204

  Andresen, Maike ^a   Gustschin, Tanja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b ACCENTURE   (United States)

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EID: 84892962115     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203111505     Document Type: Chapter

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