Journal of Global Mobility: Volume 11 Issue 3

Guest editorial: ONLY REPLICATIONS

Jan Selmer, Margaret Shaffer, David S.A. Guttormsen, Sebastian Stoermer, Luisa Helena Pinto, Yu-Ping Chen, Jakob Lauring

The evolving field of global mobility: responses to global volatility (2013–2022)

Maranda Ridgway, Hélène Langinier

A decade has passed since Dabic et al. (2015) published a systematic review of the evolution of the expatriate literature from 1970 to 2012. Moreover, the past five years have…

Being an “outsider in”: skilled migrants' career strategies in local organizations

Ksenia Usanova, Jelena Zikic, Vlad Vaiman

Although the literature on the careers of skilled migrants is growing, relatively little is known about their experiences inside host country organizations. This article is a…

Self-initiated expatriates motivation and basic psychological needs – a generalization and extension replication

Aziz Madi, Abdelrahim Alsoussi, Omar M. Shubailat

This research aims to replicate the work of Oberholster et al. (2013) on expatriation motivation through a generalization and extension replication. Additionally, it aims to…

Expatriate management in Japanese firms: paradox of the HR system for Thai self-initiated expatriates

Chie Yorozu

This research aims to see whether replication occurs with the focus on the Japanese HR system, following the latest studies on expatriate management in Japan. Whereas the total…

#MeToo, Covid-19 and the new workplace: re-examining institutional discrimination's impact on workplace harassment of expatriates following two exogenous shocks

William Obenauer, Shafagh Rezaei

Replication is essential to science for the purpose of (1) updating previously accepted knowledge and (2) testing the boundary conditions of this knowledge. Although Bader et al…

Traders across borders: who and where?

Agnieszka Nowińska, Jean-François Hennart, Svetla Marinova

The authors revisit the literature on the use of expatriates and specifically Boyacigiller (1990) and examine whether OW Bunker, a Danish bunker oil trader, filled positions at…