Research on the determinants of expatriate stress, adjustment, and performance have been evaluated extensively, however, a comprehensive research model is yet to be developed. This study integrates the antecedents and mediators of expatriate adjustments and performance. Ten research hypotheses were developed and then tested using a meta-analysis with a total of previous 341 studies during 1988-...

Expatriation is one of the key staffing policies used by MNCs to fill managerial positions in their foreign operations. But, many times it has been associated with the phenomenon of expatriate failure resulting from the inability of the expatriated manager and his (her) family to adjust to the host country environment. Purpose of this paper was so to provide an overview on the international lit...

Two studies examined factors that predict expatriate managers' tendencies to think seriously about departing prematurely from their international assignments. Previous research (conducted outside of the expatriate context) has shown that individuals' willingness to stay with or leave their positions is an interactive function of outcome favorability and procedural fairness. A conceptually analo...

Over the past decade, several European countries have flirted with and some have adopted Internet voting. In some cases, notably that of Geneva, Switzerland and the Netherlands, one of the primary motives for Internet voting was to better serve the needs of expatriate voters. In both countries, the complaints of expatriate voters were very similar to the complaints of UOCAVA voters. Too many re...

oman has made tremendous progress in the last four decades on the back of rising oil prices and this has led to substantial economic activity in oil, construction, industries and services sectors creating an unprecedented demand for labor ranging from professionals, technical experts, educators, highly skilled people in all vocations to low and semi-skilled people including cleaners, gardeners,...