Cross-cultural effectiveness of Western expatriate-Thai client interactions: Lessons learned for IHRM research and theory

Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 4-28

  Fisher, Gregory B ^a   Härtel, Charmine E j ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Expatriates; Intercultrual communication; Intercultrual effectiveness; International human resource management; Thailand

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993016576     PISSN: 13527606     EISSN: 17586089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13527600310797667     Document Type: Article

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