...Alice Fuchs; Henriett Primecz Purpose The study aims to examine how multinational corporations (MNCs) can support expatriates during repatriation while aligning with organizational goals. It examines reintegration challenges, HR’s role in repatriation, the impact of organizational support...

...Lena Maria Fischer; Marc Schwarzkopf Purpose In the context of international assignments, repatriates are confronted with social, organisational and cultural challenges. However, the impact of community and social support on the reintegration process has gone unnoticed. The purpose of this paper...

...Jason Ryan Purpose The aim of this study is to develop a better understanding of how the transferability and recognition of host country professional experience and educational credentials impact the repatriation intentions of long-term self-initiated expatriates (SIEs). To that end, the study...

...). Design/methodology/approach This paper is a systematic literature review of the factors affecting the international transfer of individual CC from/for expatriates, repatriates and other employed highly skilled migrants and return migrants. The findings are classified based on the Social Chronology...

...Sabrina Amir; Tyler G. Okimoto; Miriam Moeller Purpose This paper examines how informal knowledge transfer processes unfold during the repatriation of Malaysian executives. The goal is to develop a repatriate knowledge transfer process model, explaining the informal process through which...

...John A. Kimber Purpose Companies expend significant resources on global assignees’ success during deployment. However, the broader repatriation experience of organizational expatriates and their families, beyond securing employment, is still largely unexplored. Thus, the purpose of this paper...

... relocation to facilitate the expatriate’s career goals, but later the absence of self-career realization means hope can diminish and the partner’s career comes to drive the goals set for repatriation. Future assignments would be considered only if both partners can arrange relevant employment for themselves...

...Jan Knocke; Tassilo Schuster Purpose Repatriation continues to be a current challenge for many international firms. While this topic has received only limited attention in literature in the past, it has aroused an increased academic interest since the 2000s. Until now, however, thorough analyses...

... inexperienced volunteers to expect basic safety and adequately skilled colleagues. Research limitations/implications The authors suggest areas of new inquiry and specific ways each research proposition could be tested empirically. Practical implications To alleviate IVs’ expatriation and repatriation...

...Anne Burmeister; Jürgen Deller Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify organizational support practices that facilitate repatriate knowledge transfer (RKT) in order to overcome the lack of strategic utilization of repatriate knowledge. Design/methodology/approach – In Study 1...

...Professor Wolfgang Mayrhofer and Dr B. Sebastian Reiche; Reimara Valk; Mandy Van der Velde; Marloes Van Engen; Rohini Godbole Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to gain insight into international career motives, repatriation and career success of Indian women in Science and Technology...

...Sharon L. O’Sullivan Purpose – The purpose of this conceptual paper is twofold. The first objective is to introduce a multi-stakeholder power perspective to the discourse on repatriate retention, which has, to date, treated issues of career agency without considering whether other stakeholders...