...Susan Shortland; Stephen J. Perkins Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of organisational performance and development review policy and practice on women’s access to international careers via long-term expatriate assignments in the oil and gas industry, with a specific focus...

...Heidi Wechtler Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the motives of female childless self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) in deciding to work abroad, so far under-researched. Design/methodology/approach The study departs from prior research in using a new methodological approach, i.e...

...Yehuda Baruch; Ingo Forstenlechner Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a better understanding of expatriation, both firm-initiated and self-initiated. The authors identified factors influencing the motives of expatriates to locate to the Arabian Gulf, and possible factors that may...

...Dr Ricardo Rodrigues; Professor David Guest; Christian Yao; Kaye Thorn; Noeleen Doherty Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the dynamic nature of boundaryless careers of Chinese early career corporate expatriates. It also investigates the demographic and contextual factors...

...Susan Shortland Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which – and how – female expatriate role models support women to take up expatriate assignments in the male-dominated oil and gas industry. Design/methodology/approach – The research uses data from a census...

...Li‐Yueh Lee; Sou Veasna; Wann‐Yih Wu Purpose This study aims to examine the significance of transformational leadership and social support for expatriate adjustment and performance. This study also extends relevant literature on expatriate management to examine the relationships among...

...Noeleen Doherty; Julia Richardson; Kaye Thorn; Noeleen Doherty; Julia Richardson; Kaye Thorn Purpose This paper aims to move towards clarification of the self‐initiated expatriate/expatriation construct with the aim of extending and deepening theory development in the field. Design/methodology...

...Noeleen Doherty; Julia Richardson; Kaye Thorn; Noeleen Doherty; Julia Richardson; Kaye Thorn Purpose This special issue seeks to scope the past, present and future study of those individuals who independently journey abroad for work – the self‐initiated expatriate – a topic which is now attracting...

...Noeleen Doherty; Julia Richardson; Kaye Thorn; Chun Guo; Emily T. Porschitz; José Alves Purpose Drawing on career and self‐initiated expatriation/repatriation literatures, this paper aims to examine the career experiences of Chinese self‐initiated repatriates after their return to China. Design...

...Noeleen Doherty; Julia Richardson; Kaye Thorn; Lan Cao; Andreas Hirschi; Jürgen Deller Purpose The authors sought to explain why and how protean career attitude might influence self‐initiated expatriates' (SIEs) experiences positively. A mediation model of cultural adjustment was proposed...

...Noeleen Doherty; Julia Richardson; Kaye Thorn; Akram Al Ariss; Marian Crowley‐Henry Purpose This paper aims to offer a critical review of how self‐initiated expatriation (SIE) is theorized compared to migration in the management literature and to indicate venues for future research on SIE...

...Yan Shen; Kathy E. Kram Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine expatriates' developmental networks in terms of their structure and content. Design/methodology/approach The study employed in‐depth interviews with 64 expatriate professionals and managers in Singapore and China...

...Susan Shortland Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on female expatriates' views on the potential importance of a formalised “women's network” launched by management as a diversity intervention to aid women's career development in an oil, gas and minerals extractive industries firm...

... expatriates were surveyed regarding human resource practices that support repatriation. Analysis focused on support practices as predictors of voluntary and involuntary turnover. Findings Results indicate that the majority of firms surveyed used two or fewer repatriate support practices. While 60 percent...

... an ethnic minority who relocated from Lebanon to live and work in France. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Careers Career development Expatriates Migrant workers Immigration Ethnic minorities France There are two goals for this paper. The first is to develop a conceptual...

...Chenyi Qin; Yehuda Baruch Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the significance of cross‐cultural training and career attitudes for expatriation career move in the context of China, whether cross‐cultural training is perceived necessary, and the consequence of providing such cross...

...Torsten Kühlmann; Kate Hutchings Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the specific difficulties that senior managers face when employing expatriate, Chinese and local‐hired foreign managers in China‐based subsidiaries of Western multinational companies (MNCs). Furthermore, it aims...

... and culture. The total variance explained by this five‐component solution was 47.9 per cent (p. 113), suggesting that other motivating factors were also relevant. A broader literature incorporating expatriation, global careers, transnationalism and the brain drain was therefore examined, resulting...

... workers Employee behaviour Expatriates India Japan International migration flows are considered one of the key measures of the advancement of globalization (Collier and Dollar, 2002), but the influences of international moves in careers are not yet well understood. Understanding...

...A Ahad M. Osman‐Gani; Akmal S. Hyder Purpose With increasing interest in overseas business expansion, particularly in the Asia‐Pacific region, expatriate management, including repatriation readjustmenst, has become a critical international human resource development (HRD) issue for multinational...