Career mobility in a global era: advances in managing expatriation and repatriation
Career mobility in a global era: advances in managing expatriation and repatriation
The surge of interest in expatriation and repatriation within the broader discourse on labor mobility of professionals and high-skilled labor, human capital development, and the theory and practice of people management serves as the backdrop to this paper. We propose that expatriation and repatriation be framed in the context of global careers and embedded in the wider social-economic environment of globalization through the lens of a career ecosystem theory. We chart the evolution of scholarly publications on career mobility over the past four decades and highlight current trends, in particular the emergence of self-initiated expatriation as a pivotal change in the direction of expatriation studies and derived practice. We assess the rigor of empirical findings, weigh theoretical underpinnings, offer a research agenda for future research, and outline managerial implications.
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Baruch, Yehuda
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Altman, Yochanan
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Tung, Rosalie L.
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1 January 2016
Baruch, Yehuda
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Altman, Yochanan
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Tung, Rosalie L.
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Baruch, Yehuda, Altman, Yochanan and Tung, Rosalie L.
(2016)
Career mobility in a global era: advances in managing expatriation and repatriation.
The Academy of Management Annals, 10 (1), .
(doi:10.1080/19416520.2016.1162013).
Abstract
The surge of interest in expatriation and repatriation within the broader discourse on labor mobility of professionals and high-skilled labor, human capital development, and the theory and practice of people management serves as the backdrop to this paper. We propose that expatriation and repatriation be framed in the context of global careers and embedded in the wider social-economic environment of globalization through the lens of a career ecosystem theory. We chart the evolution of scholarly publications on career mobility over the past four decades and highlight current trends, in particular the emergence of self-initiated expatriation as a pivotal change in the direction of expatriation studies and derived practice. We assess the rigor of empirical findings, weigh theoretical underpinnings, offer a research agenda for future research, and outline managerial implications.
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Published date: 1 January 2016
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