Summary This article focuses on the cultural encounters and learning processes that take place in the context of multinational companies. First, it argues that a narrative approach to expatriation and cultural encounters may enlighten us to the ways in which these phenomena are understood and...

The objective of this article is to show how narrative methods provide useful tools for international business research. We do this by presenting a study of stories told about the collaboration between a Danish expatriate manager and his Chinese CEO in the Shanghai subsidiary of an MNE. First,...

On the basis of an empirical study of 146 Scandinavian firms, this paper analyses possible determinants of corporate practice regarding the selection and training of expatriates. The analysis indicates that the home country of the multinational company, its total number of expatriates, the...