Journal of Global Mobility: Volume 10 Issue 1

The potential of virtual global mobility: implications for practice and future research

Jan Selmer, Michael Dickmann, Fabian J. Froese, Jakob Lauring, B. Sebastian Reiche, Margaret Shaffer

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced global organizations to adopt technology-driven virtual solutions involving faster, less costly and more effective ways to work worldwide even…

Broadening international mentoring: contexts and dynamics of expatriate and HCN intercultural mentoring

Marian van Bakel, Vlad Vaiman, Charles M. Vance, Arno Haslberger

To enlarge the focus on international mentoring beyond traditional company-assigned expatriates, this conceptual paper examines important contexts and dynamics of intercultural…

It's all in the past: how do colonial legacies between host and home countries affect the expatriate experience?

Christopher Richardson

Within the expatriation subset of the wider IB literature, the focus of research has been on contemporary contextual factors. The purpose of this paper is to link the present to…

A sense of belonging helps! The alleviating effect of national identification on burnout among diplomats

Ling Eleanor Zhang, Jakob Lauring, Ting Liu

This paper aims to explore the interplay between burnout, national identity and career satisfaction among diplomats. In particular, the authors focus on the roles of home and host…

Host country employees’ negative perceptions of successive expatriate leadership: the role of leadership transference and implicit leadership theories

Sylwia Ciuk, Doris Schedlitzki

Drawing on socio-cognitively orientated leadership studies, this paper aims to contribute to our understanding of host country employees’ (HCEs) negative perceptions of successive…

When the Chinese guy becomes the female IT specialist Liu – a conceptualization of reputational shifts in international assignments

Theresa Bernhard, Dirk Holtbrügge

International assignments rely on interactions between host country nationals (HCNs) and an international assignee (IA). These interactions are significantly determined by the…

Why we need to know more about diversity among the globally mobile: a systematic literature review of non-traditional expatriate research and future research agenda for minority expatriates

Kate Hutchings

The purpose of this article is to provide a systematic literature review of research on non-traditional expatriates (NTEs) and an agenda for future research.