This thesis isconcerned with understanding the expectations that corporateemployees formabout the work- and career-related outcomes of aninternational assignment.Suchexpectations arefrequentlycited asbeing "unreasonable"and a majorsource of problemsin the repatriation and reintegration...

The keyobjectivesfor this research were to:() Provide adatabase inorder to extend the knowledgeandunderstanding of the management and use of overtime across thewhole economy;ii) Review and test a range of research questions andhypothesesconcerning specific problems and controversies surrounding...

This research is about financing practices of Pakistani-immigrant and indigenous-ownedsmall travel agents. The study provides an understanding of the capital structures ofbusinesses owned by both groups and compares these to draw similarities and differencesbetween both groups. The research...

This article explores the motives of individuals to accept internationalassignments. It uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative researchmethods to further our understanding of how important a variety of items are inthe decision to work abroad. Employing a mutual dependency perspective...

Many institutional changes have taken place to payments systems. Indeed, they have been in continual change ever since money first emerged as the dominant technology for conducting transactions. Means of settlement between banks have changed: cheques replaced cash in many transactions, and they...

New technology in computing has led some to suggest that the ability to settle transactions electronically will develop to such an extent that money will disappear from use. Two versions of this belief exist. One maintains that there will be ‘e-money’, issued conceivably by many...