...Susan Shortland Purpose This case study is designed as a teaching exercise and this paper aims to highlight the key issues for organisations’ expatriating women within masculine industry sectors and/or into challenging international environments. Design/methodology/approach This case study...

...Liisa Mäkelä; Vesa Suutari; Helene Mayerhofer Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze female expatriates' work‐life conflicts and enrichments which take place during the international assignment. Design/methodology/approach A total of 20 interviews were carried out with female...

...Susan Shortland Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the range of theoretical underpinning used to explain women's participation as expatriates with a view to identifying the most promising theoretical lenses for future research. Design/methodology/approach Drawing upon theoretical...

...Mary L. Connerley; Ross L. Mecham; Judy P. Strauss Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role that gender differences play in evaluating perceptions of global competence, individual readiness for expatriate assignments and overall job performance. Design/methodology/approach...

...Jan Selmer; Alicia S.M. Leung Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore coping strategies of female business expatriates and to examine how these strategies are associated with the women's international adjustment. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through mail surveys...

...Rueyling Tzeng Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how female expatriates face gender stereotyping and discrimination in their home and host countries and how they reconcile their conflicts between home and work. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative data were collected via...

... professionals who live and work in Japan and for HRM professionals responsible for expatriation and adjustment issues involving those women, provides evidence that adjustment challenges persist despite changes in Japan's sociocultural environment. Originality/value By carefully replicating the original...

...Katharina Hartl Women are under‐represented in the ranks of expatriate managers and research on expatriates, though formally gender‐neutral, has been heavily weighted towards the study of male professionals, thereby reinforcing the image of expatriates as male, middle aged, married with children...

... individuals – 52 per cent of dual‐career expatriates found adjusting to life overseas easy, compared to 55 per cent of single expatriates. The perception of immobility prevents managers from asking a woman in the first place and allowing her to make the decision for herself and with her family...

...Yongsun Paik; Charles M. Vance This study compared the perceptions of US, German, Korean, and Mexican managers on six different survey items assessing the business success viability of female US expatriates. The US managers’ perceptions were generally less positive than those held by their foreign...

...Babita Mathur‐Helm The current study explores the unique experiences of expatriate women managers, in procuring international assignments, adjusting to the cross‐cultural conditions on global tours and confronting the challenges affecting their career goals. In‐depth interviews were conducted...

...Yochanan Altman; Sue Shortland In this article we chart the rise of the female expatriate manager over the past generation, as a prelude to positing the question as to why the number of women on international assignments is even lower, proportionally, than their numbers in management overall. We...

... management positions. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Women Management Selection Expatriates Repertory grid Prevailing arguments relating to women’s minimal participation rates in international management positions have focused on individualistic perspectives. These may be either from the point...

... by potential male expatriates. Is the problem, therefore, more a case of home country corporate culture determining access to, and subsequent success in,international assignments for women? © MCB UP Limited 1993 Expatriates Managers Multinationals Women Literature Career development Skills...