An Empirical Investigation of Terrorism-Induced Stress on Expatriate Attitudes and Performance

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Despite international terrorism's increasing relevance for international business, the effects of terrorism that confront employees during assignments abroad have hardly been investigated. Applying a stress perspective, this article analyzes the impact of terrorism-induced stress on attitudes and the performance of expatriates. Employing data from 143 expatriate managers in high-risk countries, the study shows that several terrorism-related stressors create a significant stress level for the individual, causing negative work attitudes and attitudes towards host country nationals (disaffection). This eventually leads to worse performance. We applied partial least squares (PLS) structural equation modeling (SEM) to analyze the entire impact path and found substantial support for our hypotheses. Of all the relevant stressors, intra-family conflicts due to terrorism have the greatest impact.
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of International Management
Volume19
Issue number2
Pages (from-to)163-175
Number of pages13
ISSN1075-4253
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 06.2013
Externally publishedYes

    Research areas

  • Management studies
  • Expatriate management, High-risk countries, Stress, Structural equation modeling, Terrorism, Work attitudes

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