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Exploring the determinants of career success after expatriation: a focus on job fit, career adaptability, and expatriate type Open
Expatriation significantly influences the career paths of individuals after their international work experience. This study draws on person-environment fit and career construction theories to examine the role of job fit, career adaptabilit…
Guest editorial: Careers of self-initiated expatriates: exploring the impact of context Open
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Career success of expatriates: the impacts of career capital, expatriate type, career type and career stage Open
Purpose This paper investigates whether career capital (CC) development abroad, expatriate type, career type and career stage affect expatriates' career success in terms of perceived marketability and the number of promotions. Design/metho…
Job exhaustion among assigned and self-initiated expatriates – the role of effort and reward Open
Purpose This study explores whether expatriation type (assigned expatriates (AEs) versus self-initiated expatriates (SIEs)) is linked to job exhaustion via possible differences in required efforts for their jobs and the rewards they gain f…
Global mobility of employees: creating an audit tool to support good practice Open
Global mobility of employees: creating an audit tool to support good practice The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action ‘Global Mobility of Employees’ (GLOMO) strives for a comprehensive investigation of global mobility into EU countries and withi…
Taking stock of expatriates’ career success after international assignments: A review and future research agenda Open
This systematic literature review explores studies addressing the objective career success and subjective career success of company-assigned and self-initiated expatriates after their long-term international assignments. Expatriate work is…
Wanderlust to wonderland? : Exploring key issues in expatriate careers: Individual, organizational, and societal insights Open
Expatriation has been a topic of much research recently. The important role expatriates play in the internationalisation of an organisation and the resultant effects of such a work experience on the expatriates themselves, have fuelled the…
Acting in the spirit of the whole : Expatriate careers between the poles of personal intentions and of company and country policies Open
Expatriation has received a lot of research attention over the years due to the importance of expatriates to organizations as well as extensive impacts such international work experience has on expatriates themselves. To generate a better …
Development of career capital during expatriation: partners' perspectives Open
Purpose The purpose of this qualitative study is to examine the effects of expatriation on the development of career capital among the partners of expatriates. Design/methodology/approach The study draws on in-depth interviews with 30 Finn…
Introduction Open
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book deals with 'Cultural Distance and Self-Initiated Expatriates' Willingness to Relocate: A Research Agenda'. It provides p…
Conclusions Open
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses the impact of the 'home country' in self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) research. It describes the role of inte…
The Effect of International Work Experience on the Career Success of Expatriates: A Comparison of Assigned and Self‐Initiated Expatriates Open
This article is one of the first to examine the long‐term effect of expatriation on careers, comparing the impact of international work experience on the career success of assigned and self‐initiated expatriates. Our sample consists of emp…
Problems faced by Western expatriate managers in East Europe : evidence among Finnish expatriates in Russia and Estonia Open
A common human resource management strategy among Western companies in international operations is the use of home-country expatriate managers although expatriate adjustment has been found to involve difficulties. In the light of this the …
The career competencies of self-initiated and assigned expatriates: assessing the development of career capital over time Open
Building on a modern careers approach, we assess the effects of working abroad on individuals’ career capital. Given the dearth of longitudinal studies, we return to a sample of economics graduates in Finland eight years later. We measure …