...Yuwen Liu Purpose The purpose of this article is to advance the understanding of expatriates' psychological attachment toward both their parent company and its foreign subsidiary by highlighting how workplace friendships enhance the process of adjustment for expatriates and how these effects...

...Henrique Duarte; Umberto de Eccher; Chris Brewster Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain how candidates' expectations of salary in relation to job offers as expatriates in developing societies are related to country image and to age. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected...

...Taiba Hussain; Perihan Iren; John Rice Purpose Expatriate mobility is increasing globally, in volume and diversity. A growing element of this overall increase has been the greater share of self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) working outside their home countries. In some host countries, SIEs make up...

... roles in CCT provision. Practical implications The findings suggest that HR managers partly design and implement practice according to what they believe are unmet expatriate needs and what they perceive as effective HR tools. The authors discuss the practical value of raising their awareness...

...Susan Shortland Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how decisions to undertake organisationally assigned expatriation are influenced by employers’ international assignment (IA) compensation and benefits policies, seen through the lens of female expatriate breadwinners working...

...Charlotte Jonasson; Jakob Lauring; David S.A. Guttormsen Purpose A growing number of academics relocate abroad to work as expatriates in the university sector. While this employee group seems to have a highly constructive influence on the performance of university organizations, some problems...

...Luisa Helena Pinto; Carlos Cabral Cardoso; William B. Werther Jr Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of perceived home and destination organizational culture characteristics and general satisfaction with the assignment as antecedents of expatriates’ withdrawal intentions...

...Yvonne McNulty; Charles M. Vance Purpose Most studies of expatriates have explored global careers as unfolding within assigned or self-initiated expatriation contexts in a predominantly linear fashion. The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize that expatriates’ career progression...

... on a cognitively demanding work context in order to explore variations in effect of different engagement dimension and different expatriate work outcomes. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use survey results from 102 expatriate academics in Singapore to study the relations between job engagement...

...Hyoung Koo Moon; Byoung Kwon Choi; Jae Shik Jung Purpose The purpose of this paper is to comprehensively investigate the antecedents of expatriates' cultural intelligence (CQ) by simultaneously considering previous working experiences in one's home country prior to expatriation, the number of co...

...Jan Selmer; Jakob Lauring Purpose Through a large‐scale quantitative study, this paper aims to test and extend the qualitative findings of Richardson and McKenna and of Osland on reasons to expatriate and relate them to work outcomes. Design/methodology/approach Examining how reasons...

... of the taxonomy in predicting performance. Julie Cogin can be contacted at: julie.cogin@unsw.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 The revised taxonomy (Figure 1) identified four potential cross border manager types. These were labelled: Although expatriation receives substantial...

...Ingo Forstenlechner Purpose The purpose of this paper is to add to knowledge on the environment of self‐initiated expatriates and their perception of justice in their host country, to identify whether the concept of perceived host country justice applies to, or is relevant to, self‐initiated...

...Michael Dickmann; Tim Mills Purpose Research neglects the role that specific locations play in the decision process to accept international work. This paper aims to explore the career drivers of individuals working as expatriates in London (UK) and to focus on the relationships with specific...

...Kelly P. Weeks; Matthew Weeks; Katherine Willis‐Muller Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a model regarding adolescent adjustment issues overseas. Design/methodology/approach Using previous literature on expatriate adjustment and in‐depth interviews with students currently living...

...Jan Selmer; Charles R. Fenner, Jr Purpose The purpose of this pioneering study is to explore spillover effects between non‐work and work adjustment of public sector (PS) expatriates. Design/methodology/approach US Department of Defense (DoD) administrators assigned to US embassies world‐wide...

...Yuwen Liu Purpose The purpose of this article is to empirically examine the relationships between organizational support, affective commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) for expatriates. Design/methodology/approach Data from 162 expatriates, working in 37 subsidiaries...

...Ramudu Bhanugopan; Alan Fish Purpose The purpose of this study was to determine the level of workplace “job burnout” experienced by expatriate managers in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The study also examined the relationship between job burnout and intention to quit, and findings suggest...

...Julia Richardson Purpose To provide a theoretically grounded exploration of the family's role in the decision to expatriate independently. Design/methodology/approach This is a qualitative study drawing on data collected in interviews with 30 British faculty working in universities...

... choices made by cross‐border managers have become key elements in understanding “personal wellbeing” and “personal interaction” necessary to assist effective adjustment. Ward and Kennedy (2001) and Selmer (2001) in their review of adaptability and coping strategies amongst expatriates in Singapore...