Self-initiated expatriation in academia: A bounded and boundaryless career?

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 205-220

  Richardson, Julia ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 84917467150     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203111505     Document Type: Chapter

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