...Roman Faller; Liza Howe-Walsh; Hazel Gruenewald Purpose Relationships between expatriates and host country nationals (HCNs) are critical to expatriate adjustment and knowledge transfer. This paper adopts a multi-stakeholder perspective to explore the conditions and organisational actions...

...Ashneet Kaur; Sudhanshu Maheshwari; Arup Varma Purpose The extant literature on expatriate adjustment primarily highlights the role of host country nationals (HCNs) in supporting expatriates during international assignments. However, there is a dearth of research exploring the expatriates...

...Carol Reade; Mark McKenna Purpose The literature on expatriation rarely considers environmental stressors beyond cultural differences or interaction adjustment from the standpoint of host country nationals (HCNs). The authors develop a typology of expatriate–HCN interaction adjustment in response...

...Theresa Bernhard; Dirk Holtbrügge Purpose International assignments rely on interactions between host country nationals (HCNs) and an international assignee (IA). These interactions are significantly determined by the reputation that the IA holds among HCNs. However, reputation has only scarcely...

...Yu-Shan Hsu; Yu-Ping Chen; Margaret A. Shaffer; Flora F.T. Chiang Purpose Drawing on expectancy value theory (EVT), this paper examines knowledge exchange between expatriate and host country national (HCN) dyads to understand whether receivers' perceptions about senders' motivation to transfer...

...Jasenko Ljubica; Margaret Shaffer; Sabrina Tin; Kevin McKouen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a nomological model of the dark side of expatriate–host country national (HCN) relationships by identifying and explaining the development and the types of expatriate–HCN disruptive...

...Adam Potter; Christopher Richardson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show how the theory of researcher positionality can help international business researchers and human resource managers clarify the ideal position of the expatriate in relation to host country nationals (HCNs), so...

...Arup Varma; Pawan Budhwar; Anastasia Katou; Jossy Matthew Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role played by host country nationals’ (HCNs) collectivism and the interpersonal affect they develop toward expatriate colleagues, in determining the degree to which Chinese HCNs would...

...Shirley C. Sonesh; Angelo S. DeNisi Purpose – Although several authors have suggested that host country nationals (HCNs) play an important role in the management of expatriates (e.g. Toh and DeNisi, 2003; Farh et al., 2010), research has also suggested that this relationship...