Corporate career support: Chinese mainland expatriates in Hong Kong

Career Development International

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 5-12

  Selmer, Jan ^a   Ebrahimi, Bahman P ^a   Mingtao, Li ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Career development; China; Hong Kong

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986166003     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13620430010309314     Document Type: Article

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