Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to uncover career-related issues that high-skilled female immigrants face and their strategies for rebuilding their careers upon migration for a diverse range of reasons including following a spouse, furthering education and self-initiated expatriation....

Work practices that involve employees are generally assumed to be less effective in more hierarchical societies where employees’ values are not aligned with such practices. In this study, we challenge this assumption by developing a theory that differentiates between the symbolic and...