It has been argued that the adjustment of leadership behavior is essential to leader effectiveness in a cross-cultural context; however, little is known about whether and to what extent business leaders actually do adjust and about the factors that influence any adjustment. This paper presents a study that investigates such aspects. Our data were collected from 391 expatriate senior managers wo...

Local R&D laboratories are traditionally a primary source of information and technology involving local talent and intelligence. This paper focuses on R&D units established by foreign companies in China, investigating their R&D mission, laboratory management, integration with the parent organizations, and overall performance. The research is based on 28 qualitative expert interviews with local ...

Based on theoretical perspectives from the work/family literature, this study tested a model for examining expatriate families' adjustment while on global assignments as an antecedent to expatriates' adjustment to working in a host country. Data were collected from 110 families that had been relocated for global assignments. Longitudinal data, assessing family characteristics before the assignm...

The recent attacks on expatriate hawkers, by their South African counterparts in the streets of Johannesburg, has revealed the vicious xenophobia which lies under the surface of our "rainbow" nation. According to the South African street traders, "illegal" foreigners pose unfair competition to their trade, in an economically adverse climate and should be deported. Migration has been with us for...

The impacts of globalization and changes in the paradigms international workforce have led to an increasing trend number expatriates (either those who do so by decision company for which they work, or on their own initiative). This reality applies Portuguese expatriate workers, with positive negative points development career personal life. For a better understanding this phenomenon, survey was...