... Expatriates Service firms Human capital intensity Institutions The way that multinational corporations (MNCs) choose to staff foreign subsidiaries is one of the most critical, strategic decisions required when expanding global operations (Belderbos and Heijltjes, 2005 ; Delios and Björkman, 2000...

...Kyle C. Huff Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how cultural intelligence (CQ) and language proficiency are related to cross‐cultural adjustment, expatriate satisfaction, and expatriate desires towards the future, to further what is known about CQ. Design/methodology/approach...

...Mike Berrell; Jan Selmer Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine empirically the views and experience of cross‐cultural training (CCT) of experienced Western business expatriates (“China Hands”) assigned to China. Design/methodology/approach Data for this study were extracted from...

...Cedwyn Fernandes; Raed Awamleh Purpose This study analyses the impact of organisational justice as encompassed by three components, distributive justice, procedural justice and interactional justice on self assessed performance and job satisfaction of employees in an expatriate environment...

...Kristine Rushing; Brian H. Kleiner Looks at domestic relocation practices and how the expatriation assignments have worked out in recruitment and retention. States that both domestic and international assignment relocation face similar issues but that there are many extra items in international...

...Lusha Li; Brian H. Kleiner Considers the relationship between the expatriates and locals which affect their working together and therefore the effectiveness of their companies. Suggests that the area of institutional arrangements that sets the pattern of the relationship, the tone of communications...