Purpose: The evolution of firm level practices over time has always been a keen area of interest for management scholars. However, in comparison to other social scientists, particularly economists, the relative dearth of firm level panel data sets has restricted the methodological options for...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explain how candidates' expectations of salary in relation to job offers as expatriates in developing societies are related to country image and to age. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected from over 500 engineers living in France, Portugal...

This thesis isconcerned with understanding the expectations that corporateemployees formabout the work- and career-related outcomes of aninternational assignment.Suchexpectations arefrequentlycited asbeing "unreasonable"and a majorsource of problemsin the repatriation and reintegration...

The keyobjectivesfor this research were to:() Provide adatabase inorder to extend the knowledgeandunderstanding of the management and use of overtime across thewhole economy;ii) Review and test a range of research questions andhypothesesconcerning specific problems and controversies surrounding...

This research is about financing practices of Pakistani-immigrant and indigenous-ownedsmall travel agents. The study provides an understanding of the capital structures ofbusinesses owned by both groups and compares these to draw similarities and differencesbetween both groups. The research...

This article explores the motives of individuals to accept internationalassignments. It uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative researchmethods to further our understanding of how important a variety of items are inthe decision to work abroad. Employing a mutual dependency perspective...

Purpose: The literature on international staffing in multinational enterprises (MNEs) often focuses on staffing choices based on nationality categories (e.g. parent-country nationals, host-country nationals, third-country nationals) for key positions in subsidiaries when examining their impacts...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct impact of individual variables (cultural openness, social orientation, willingness to communicate, confidence in own technical abilities, active stress resistance, prior international experience) on expatriate time to proficiency...