This paper reports on an important subgroup of international boundary-spanners – immigrants and second or third generation migrants from the MNC's home country living in the subsidiary host country. We take as our example the Nikkeijin (Japanese immigrants and their descendants) in Brazil....

This paper uses insights and data gained from 15 years of involvement in a research network studying HRM developments in Europe to explore the notion of "European HRM" and the meanings of convergence and divergence in HRM Using data from the last decade of the Cranet research, the paper puts...

Introduction Expatriate managers are crucial members of all major multinational corporations (MNCs). And they are very expensive. To send a manager abroad can typically cost three times what it would cost to keep him or her at home. The expatriate managers' success is vital to their corporation,...

Purpose – This paper seeks to review and explore the relatively neglected notion of the adjustment of expatriate families to living abroad with the aim of developing a new model that can be used for future research. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on the few studies of the...