...Emma Marchal Jones; Marnie Olivia Reed; Andrea Meyer; Jens Gaab; Yoon Phaik Ooi Purpose This cross-sectional investigation explores the relative importance of specific psychological factors influencing adjustment in a sample of internationally mobile children and adolescents, commonly referred...

... is important for the travelers, their families and the organization. Originality/value This is the first IBT review focused on the theoretical underpinnings of research in the field. The authors offer a model for IBT and introduce adjustment and performance as important constructs in IBT research...

...Erhan Atay; Serkan Bayraktaroglu; Yin Teng Elaine Chew Purpose This qualitative study has two aims. The first is to explore the cognitive, affective, and behavioural dimensions of Eurasian self-initiated expatriates’ (SIEs) work and non-work adjustments in Korea. The second is to understand how...

...Brigitte Armon; Lisa Steelman; Sarah Jensen Purpose The purpose of the present study is to examine the role of the feedback environment in expatriate adjustment and subsequent performance. Based on newcomer adaptation and sensemaking theories, the authors proposed that the supervisor and coworker...

... 08 2021 22 10 2021 26 11 2021 29 11 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Expatriates Adjustment Postcolonialism Sumitomo Foundation 188401-092 Research on expatriation in its various forms...

... competency has traditionally been and continues to be the primary decision criterion used by MNEs across multiple countries (Caligiuri et al., 2009). Confidence in one’s technical ability is positively related to expatriates’ work adjustment (Ben Ameur, 2010 ; Cerdin, 1999). It seems reasonable...

...Heidi Ellise Collins; Santina Bertone Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore changes in the identity constructions of expatriate accompanying spouses, as experienced throughout their first year of adjustment to living in Sarawak, Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach Using interview...

...Charlotte Jonasson; Jakob Lauring; Jan Selmer; Jodie-Lee Trembath Purpose While there is a growing interest in expatriate academics, their specific role as teachers with daily contact to local students seems to have been largely ignored when examining their adjustment and work outcomes. Based...

..., relationship building, contextual performance and retention as all being part of how success or failure should be defined. The authors also discuss two proposed pre-requisites for success – absorptive capacity (operationalized at both the individual and the unit levels) and adjustment. The authors conclude...

...Graeme Ditchburn; Elizabeth R Brook Purpose – Expatriate workforces are growing as a result of globalisation and the considerable cost associated with expatriation is a strong incentive to identify which employees are most likely to adjust to the host nation. One area relevant to cross-cultural...

...Kerri Anne Crowne; Richard J. Goeke; Mary Shoemaker Purpose – Adjustment to the new locale is one of the primary factors that influence performance on an international assignment. The purpose of this paper is to propose a model that depicts how online social networks may contribute...

...Professor Wolfgang Mayrhofer and Dr B. Sebastian Reiche; Jennifer Feitosa; Christine Kreutzer; Angela Kramperth; William S. Kramer; Eduardo Salas Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to first, synthesize employee characteristics that have been shown to help expatriate adjustment into best...

...Pauline Vromans; Marloes van Engen; Stefan Mol Purpose – To introduce the presumed cultural similarity paradox as a possible explanation for the findings that adjusting to a culturally similar country is just as difficult as adjusting to a culturally dissimilar country. We provide a conceptual...

...Masoud Hemmasi; Meredith Downes Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between cultural distance and cross‐cultural adjustment. The authors address four hypotheses regarding this relationship: the Cultural Distance Hypothesis; the Cultural Distance Paradox; the Null...