Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify how dual career expatriates view their spouses' roles during international assignments. Design/methodology/approach – In total, 39 interviews were carried out with expatriates who had a working spouse. The interview data were content...

Purpose – This paper introduces this special issue. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines some of the key themes in global human resource management. Findings – By reviewing, briefly, the existing literature in these areas, the paper outlines a limited but crucial research...

Research on multinational corporation (MNC) knowledge transfer has argued continuously for the behavior of knowledge senders to be a determinant of knowledge transfer. Although the importance of disseminative capacity regarding knowledge transfer has been illustrated in numerous conceptual...

Purpose – This paper seeks to address two research questions: first, to what extent do highly skilled migrants intend to make personal business and financial investments in their home countries, and second, what factors influence them to invest in their home countries?...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze female expatriates' work‐life conflicts and enrichments which take place during the international assignment. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 20 interviews were carried out with female expatriates. The interview data were content...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore determinants that affect foreign subsidiary staffing policies by employing institutional theory as a theoretical foundation. Design/methodology/approach – Hypotheses are developed regarding determinants of the ratio of parent country...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to assess the relevance of the personal value called self‐transcendence as an explanatory factor regarding gender differences in the socio‐cultural adjustment of expatriate employees. Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 37 male and 31 female...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze four major aspects of the work role and how they influence the expatriate work adjustment in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Russia. Design/methodology/approach – The study uses a quantitative design. Self‐reported data were collected...

Purpose – Most of the fast‐growing literature on business expatriates has focused on organizational expatriates (OEs) who have been assigned by their parent companies to the foreign location. However, there is much less research on self‐initiated expatriates (SIE), who themselves have...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether organizations can encourage the loyalty of their international employees through the composition of their expatriate packages. Design/methodology/approach – Two separate but complementary theoretical perspectives – the total reward...