Ethnic minority migrants or self-initiated expatriates?: Questioning assumptions in international management studies

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 235-242

  Al Ariss, Akram ^a  

^a TOULOUSE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

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EID: 84893019850     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203111505     Document Type: Chapter

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