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Table II

Overview of articles in the special issue

Article title and author(s)	Sector of focus	Article objectives	Chosen sample and methods	Main findings
Dolles and Egilsson: “From heroes to zeroes” – self-initiated expatriation of talented young footballers	Sports expatriation (football)	To explore various (stress) factors associated with the transition of young football players into professional football overseas; to compare successful and non-successful transitions of young footballers and the coping strategies applied	Biographical narrative interviews with 8 Icelandic players – 4 that successfully dealt with transitions and 4 that did not experience the same success	The expatriate journey for young footballers is complex, influenced by many events, expectations, conditions and pressures that affect their support web and ability to adjust; problem-focused coping strategies are more effective than emotion-focused coping Contribution: considers additional stages of player development and an array of individual and cultural factors that may have a significant role in shaping players’ careers abroad
Myers, Inkson and Pringle: self-initiated expatriation (SIE) by older women: an exploratory study	International aid and development (IAD) expatriation (international volunteering); medical expatriation (contract caring)	To explore the motivation, experiences and outcomes of women over 50 who self-expatriate	21 in-depth life story interviews of contract carers and aid volunteers, reported as 8 vignette “examples”	SIE can be transformational by providing a desirable liberation from pressing mid-life issues, which can be achieved through career development, but is more commonly achieved through personal development and lifestyle changes Contribution: highlights the non-work impact of SIE on older women who self-expatriate. The effects of SIE extend beyond an organizational career focus wherein the effects can be transformational to one’s personal life
Barrett, Cox and Woodward: the psychological contract of international volunteers: an exploratory study	International aid and development expatriation (international volunteering)	To investigate the psychological contracts of international volunteers in terms of their formation, content items, maintenance, and fulfillment vs breach	Interviews with 27 international volunteers from a range of international aid and development organizations	When forming PCs, international volunteers rely mainly on information they seek out themselves and obtain from co-volunteers. Once in the field, they adjust their expectations in light of their own and their co-volunteers’ experiences. In the present study IADs seldom breached the modest PC expectations of their volunteers: when potential breaches occurred, volunteers adjusted their expectations downwards Contribution: the assumption in PC theory that psychological contracts are always formed between individuals and formal institutions or representatives of the organization they work for may be too limiting. The real “otherness” of the “other party” to the psychological contract referred to in Rousseau’s (1989) definition needs to be taken seriously
Presbitero: religious expatriates’ cultural intelligence and adaptation: the role of intrinsic motivation for successful expatriation	Religious expatriation	Provide new insights into religious expatriates’ cultural intelligence, adaptation and the role of motivation	Survey of 110 religious expatriates from various religious communities	Cultural intelligence is positively and significantly related to both psychological and sociocultural adaptation; intrinsic motivation, as a type of motivation, moderates the relationship between cultural intelligence and adaptation (both psychological and sociocultural) Contribution: generates new insights into the importance of cultural intelligence and intrinsic motivation to ensure high levels of psychological and sociocultural adaptation
Mutter: the global mobility decisions of professional sailors spouses	Sports expatriation (sailing)	To identify the factors informing spousal global mobility decisions to go or to stay behind within the context of sporting expatriation, and the dynamic nature of these factors across multiple points in time	In-depth interviews with 21 spouses of professional sailors who have experienced both trailing their spouse and staying behind	Access to empathetic social support, the potential impact on children, and spouse’s career were all found to influence the spouse’s global mobility decision-making Contribution: provides empirical enhancement to the family relatedness of work decisions framework by (1) adding the voice of the spouse, and (2) including non-corporate perspectives
Bunnell: teachers in international schools: a neglected “middling actor” in expatriation	Education expatriation (international schools)	To add conceptual clarity to the notion that some business expatriates, such as international school teachers, exist in the “middle” of a hierarchy of expatriates. The deeper issue of the perceived status of expatriates can have implications for their well-being and adjustment	–	The absence of teachers within the broader socialization of expatriate communities leads to a perception that there are real forms of expatriates vs others resulting in one becoming the more legitimate form than another. The perceived inequality becomes taken for granted and assumed as the norm, i.e., it becomes a state of “doxa” Contribution: a research bias exists; corporate expatriates are seen as the original and “legitimate” version of expatriates, and thus worthy of greater discussion and attention, but at the expense of studying other expatriates (e.g. self-initiated expatriates/SIEs, low-skilled expatriates, and so on). Implies a large body of expatriates exist in the “middle” of the spectrum, being neither corporate (privileged/fully assisted) nor precariat (non-privileged/non-assisted), and who have escaped attention within the dominant AE vs SIE debate

Article title and author(s)	Sector of focus	Article objectives	Chosen sample and methods	Main findings
Dolles and Egilsson: “From heroes to zeroes” – self-initiated expatriation of talented young footballers	Sports expatriation (football)	To explore various (stress) factors associated with the transition of young football players into professional football overseas; to compare successful and non-successful transitions of young footballers and the coping strategies applied	Biographical narrative interviews with 8 Icelandic players – 4 that successfully dealt with transitions and 4 that did not experience the same success	The expatriate journey for young footballers is complex, influenced by many events, expectations, conditions and pressures that affect their support web and ability to adjust; problem-focused coping strategies are more effective than emotion-focused copingContribution: considers additional stages of player development and an array of individual and cultural factors that may have a significant role in shaping players’ careers abroad
Myers, Inkson and Pringle: self-initiated expatriation (SIE) by older women: an exploratory study	International aid and development (IAD) expatriation (international volunteering); medical expatriation (contract caring)	To explore the motivation, experiences and outcomes of women over 50 who self-expatriate	21 in-depth life story interviews of contract carers and aid volunteers, reported as 8 vignette “examples”	SIE can be transformational by providing a desirable liberation from pressing mid-life issues, which can be achieved through career development, but is more commonly achieved through personal development and lifestyle changesContribution: highlights the non-work impact of SIE on older women who self-expatriate. The effects of SIE extend beyond an organizational career focus wherein the effects can be transformational to one’s personal life
Barrett, Cox and Woodward: the psychological contract of international volunteers: an exploratory study	International aid and development expatriation (international volunteering)	To investigate the psychological contracts of international volunteers in terms of their formation, content items, maintenance, and fulfillment vs breach	Interviews with 27 international volunteers from a range of international aid and development organizations	When forming PCs, international volunteers rely mainly on information they seek out themselves and obtain from co-volunteers. Once in the field, they adjust their expectations in light of their own and their co-volunteers’ experiences. In the present study IADs seldom breached the modest PC expectations of their volunteers: when potential breaches occurred, volunteers adjusted their expectations downwardsContribution: the assumption in PC theory that psychological contracts are always formed between individuals and formal institutions or representatives of the organization they work for may be too limiting. The real “otherness” of the “other party” to the psychological contract referred to in Rousseau’s (1989) definition needs to be taken seriously
Presbitero: religious expatriates’ cultural intelligence and adaptation: the role of intrinsic motivation for successful expatriation	Religious expatriation	Provide new insights into religious expatriates’ cultural intelligence, adaptation and the role of motivation	Survey of 110 religious expatriates from various religious communities	Cultural intelligence is positively and significantly related to both psychological and sociocultural adaptation; intrinsic motivation, as a type of motivation, moderates the relationship between cultural intelligence and adaptation (both psychological and sociocultural)Contribution: generates new insights into the importance of cultural intelligence and intrinsic motivation to ensure high levels of psychological and sociocultural adaptation
Mutter: the global mobility decisions of professional sailors spouses	Sports expatriation (sailing)	To identify the factors informing spousal global mobility decisions to go or to stay behind within the context of sporting expatriation, and the dynamic nature of these factors across multiple points in time	In-depth interviews with 21 spouses of professional sailors who have experienced both trailing their spouse and staying behind	Access to empathetic social support, the potential impact on children, and spouse’s career were all found to influence the spouse’s global mobility decision-makingContribution: provides empirical enhancement to the family relatedness of work decisions framework by (1) adding the voice of the spouse, and (2) including non-corporate perspectives
Bunnell: teachers in international schools: a neglected “middling actor” in expatriation	Education expatriation (international schools)	To add conceptual clarity to the notion that some business expatriates, such as international school teachers, exist in the “middle” of a hierarchy of expatriates. The deeper issue of the perceived status of expatriates can have implications for their well-being and adjustment	–	The absence of teachers within the broader socialization of expatriate communities leads to a perception that there are real forms of expatriates vs others resulting in one becoming the more legitimate form than another. The perceived inequality becomes taken for granted and assumed as the norm, i.e., it becomes a state of “doxa”Contribution: a research bias exists; corporate expatriates are seen as the original and “legitimate” version of expatriates, and thus worthy of greater discussion and attention, but at the expense of studying other expatriates (e.g. self-initiated expatriates/SIEs, low-skilled expatriates, and so on). Implies a large body of expatriates exist in the “middle” of the spectrum, being neither corporate (privileged/fully assisted) nor precariat (non-privileged/non-assisted), and who have escaped attention within the dominant AE vs SIE debate