Scientific Network for Expatriate Management

Project: Research

Project participants

Description

Due to the increasing importance of global activities, assigning staff in foreign subsidiaries (expatriate assignments) has gained in importance for multinational corporations (MNCs). While abroad, expatriates often are challenged with complex management tasks and are responsible for the success of the subsidiary. However, empirical studies find that many expatriates return from their assignment prematurely without having successfully finished their tasks abroad. In contrast to a growing number of studies concerning the conditions for a successful assignment, especially questions of intercultural adjustment, the meaning of failed assignments has not been subject to intensive research yet. Neither is there a common definition for a failed assignment, nor do scholars agree, how success or failure can be operationalized and measured. However, this is of great importance due to the tremendous strategic meaning of expatriate assignments for MNCs. Expatriates decisively shape the market entry and the sustainable success of the company in any host country. However, from an academic point of view, expatriate management has mainly been focus of an individual perspective and in terms of Human Resource Management, not from a holistic, strategic point of view. As of now, there is no such thing as an overall plan to classify the assignment process, including measuring success and repatriation plans, in corporate strategy considerations. In order to close these conceptual gaps, the scientific network will work together on respective research questions. While doing so, the scientific network has three points as their major goals: (1) Creating a valuable contribution to literature on expatriate management and strengthening research from a German perspective. Thematically this will be done by (a) bridging the conceptual gap by defining and measuring successful versus failed assignments, (b) bridging the interdisciplinary gap by integrating individual-focused and strategic points of view in an interdisciplinary approach, and (c) bridging the intercontinental gap by contributing to and supporting European, especially German research on expatriate management, in order to supplement research approaches mainly being conducted in North America. (2) Supporting young German academics/scholar by collaborating and networking in an interdisciplinary approach with colleagues from different fields with different backgrounds.(3) Publishing the results in an edited book in order to generate a value-added for theory and practice.
StatusFinished
Period01.01.1531.01.17

Research outputs

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Researchers

  1. Rhoda Kachali

Publications

  1. Wie werden Lerngegenstände zu Gegenständen?
  2. Which clicks lead to conversions?
  3. In die Mitarbeiter investieren
  4. Evaluation of the toxic effects of four anti-cancer drugs in plant bioassays and its potency for screening in the context of waste water reuse for irrigation
  5. Punitive Damages
  6. Mehr Füchse, weniger Igel!
  7. Ausschüsse
  8. Surveying Southern Mongolia
  9. Fantasy about the future as friend and foe
  10. On the emergence of the in–out effect across trials
  11. Hot Extrusion Dies with Conformal Cooling Channels Produced by Additive Manufacturing
  12. Developing a Green Business Portfolio
  13. Parents’ Views of Video Games
  14. Migrationskontrolle durch Flüchtlingsschutz?
  15. Warrant price responses to credit spread changes
  16. Response diversity as a sustainability strategy
  17. Goldhagen-Debatte
  18. Cartel behaviour and efficient sanctioning by criminal sentences
  19. CorpusTracer
  20. Income distribution and willingness to pay for ecosystem services
  21. Playing for meaning
  22. Faktor Fünf
  23. Does money "buy" tolerance toward damage-causing wildlife?
  24. Introducing ‘cultures of rejection’
  25. Unmarked Graves: Yet Another Legacy of Canada's Residential School System
  26. Die Rolle der Lernsituation
  27. How to measure energy-efficiency of software
  28. Interkulturelles Lernen anhand von Bildnarrationen.
  29. Navigating cognition biases in the search of sustainability
  30. Consumer concerns about drinking water in an area with high levels of naturally occurring arsenic in groundwater, and the implications for managing health risks
  31. Predicting academic success with the big 5 rated from different points of view: Self-rated, other rated and faked
  32. Allele elimination recalculated
  33. Zwischen Erziehung und Unterhaltung
  34. Long-term degradation of Sahelian rangeland detected by 27 years of field study in Senegal
  35. Not Only the Miserable Receive Help
  36. Szenarien in der Unternehmensstrategie
  37. A leverage point perspective on serious games for sustainability transformation
  38. Der Sitz des Fahrers
  39. Reaction of Calcium Chloride and Magnesium Chloride and their Mixed Salts with Ethanol for Thermal Energy Storage
  40. Mathematik in Bewegung
  41. Lessons from Ethiopian coffee landscapes for global conservation in a post-wild world
  42. Kurze Pässe, lange Pässe
  43. Bremst das Schwerbehindertengesetz die Arbeitsplatzdynamik in Kleinbetrieben?
  44. National Ecosystem Assessments in Europe