Global Mobility and the Management of Expatriates

With approximately 50 million people across the globe considered expatriates (persons living and working abroad for a limited time), global mobility is an important issue for individuals, organisations, and national governments, and a major research stream in universities and business schools. Written by a team of internationally renowned scholars from around the world, this volume summarises what is known about the management of global mobility and sets an agenda for future research. It also offers a comprehensive overview of the practical implications for organisations that manage expatriates, and individuals who are currently or aspiring expatriates. Providing an accessible and globally relevant introduction to the subject of expatriation and global mobility, this book will appeal to postgraduate, MBA, and EMBA students studying global mobility or international human resource management.  It will also be of interest to practitioners, such as human resource managers and global mobility managers, who would like to gain a better understanding of the expatriation process.

Introduction; 1. Global mobility: reasons, trends and strategies Jaime Bonache, Chris Brewster, and Fabian Froese; Part I. The Expatriation Process of Corporate Expatriates: 2. The recruitment, selection and preparation of expatriates Marie-France Waxin and Chris Brewster; 3. Expatriate adjustment Anne Lessle, Arno Haslberger, and Chris Brewster; 4. Performance management for expatriates; Arup Varma, Chun-Hsiao Wang and Pawan S. Budhwar; 5: Compensating global mobility Jaime Bonache and Celia Zárraga-Oberty; 6. Repatriation and career development Flora F. T. Chiang, Emmy van Esch, and Thomas A. Birtch; Part II. Different Types of Expatriates and Stakeholders: 7. Short-term assignees, international business travelers, and international commuters Chris Brewster, Michael Dickmann, and Vesa Suutari; 8. Self-initiated expatriates Sebastian Stoermer, Fabian Froese, and Vesa Peltokorpi; 9. Skilled migrants careers Jelena Zikic and Viktoriya Voloshyna; 10. Women and global mobility Helen De Cieri; 11. Global families Margaret A. Shaffer and Min (Maggie) Wan; 12. Roles and challenges for global mobility departments Michael Dickmann; Index.

Jaime Bonache is Professor of Management at University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain) and Visiting Professor of Esade Business School (Barcelona, Spain). His academic production includes around thirty articles in international peer-reviewed academic journals and three books, including Managing the Global Workforce (co-authored with Paula Caligiuri and David Lepak, 2010).
Chris Brewster is Professor of International Human Resource Management at Henley Business School, University of Reading. He has been involved as author or editor in the publication of more than 30 books, including Working Internationally: Expatriation, Migration and Other Global Work (co-authored with Yvonne McNulty, 2019), as well as more than 100 book chapters and over 200 articles.
Fabian Jintae Froese is Professor of Human Resource Management at the University of Goettingen, Germany, Editor-in-Chief of Asian Business & Management, and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Human Resource Management. His research has been published in more than 50 journal articles.