Introduction: Self-initiated expatriation-individual, organizational, and national perspectives

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3-10

  Andresen, Maike ^a   Al Ariss, Akram ^b   Walther, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b TOULOUSE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

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EID: 84917467648     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203111505     Document Type: Chapter

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