As international corporate activities increase, their staffing involves more strategic concerns. However, foreign assignments have many differences, and dissatisfaction with the host country is a known cause of expatriate failure. From the point of view of an expatriate candidate, the decision of whether to take an expatriate assignment can be regarded as a FMCDM (fuzzy multiple criteria decisi...

Integrating work-family and cross-cultural adjustment literatures, the researchers proposed and tested a spillover and crossover model of expatriates' cross-cultural adjustment with reciprocal relationships. Spillover effects refer to the influence that expatriate attitudes in a particular domain (e.g., work) have on attitudes in other domains (e.g., nonwork), whereas crossover effects refer to...

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...