Global Mobility and the Management of Expatriates

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.

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.