Career management issues of female business expatriates

Career Development International

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 348-358

  Selmer, Jan ^a   Leung, Alicia S M ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Career development; Expatriates; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986082887     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13620430210444376     Document Type: Article

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