Employing organisations and expatriate spouses: Balancing self-knowledge and knowledge about options

Career Development International

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 169-176

  Glanz, Lyn ^a   Van Der Sluis, E C ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Career development; Expatriates; Spouses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986100094     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13620430110389757     Document Type: Article

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