Role models: Expatriate gender diversity pipeline or pipe-dream?

Career Development International

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 572-594

  Shortland, Susan ^a  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Careers; Expatriates; Gender; Gender diversity; Human resource management; International assignments; Role models; Social networks; Women; Women expatriates; Women s careers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926313143     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/CDI-10-2013-0123     Document Type: Article

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