Career concepts of self-initiated and assigned expatriates: A theoretical analysis based on coupling and configuration

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 105-121

  Andresen, Maike ^a   Biemann, Torsten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

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EID: 84893011752     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203111505     Document Type: Chapter

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