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Organizational expatriates and self-initiated expatriates: who adjusts better to work and life in Japan?

Vesa Peltokorpi HEC School of Management, Paris, FranceCorrespondence[email protected]
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Fabian Jintae Froese Korea University Business School, Korea
Pages 1096-1112 | Published online: 28 May 2009

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