Journal of Global Mobility: Volume 5 Issue 1

Where have all the expatriates gone?

Jan Selmer

Job resources and demands for expatriate academics: Linking teacher-student relations, intercultural adjustment, and job satisfaction

Charlotte Jonasson, Jakob Lauring, Jan Selmer, Jodie-Lee Trembath

While there is a growing interest in expatriate academics, their specific role as teachers with daily contact to local students seems to have been largely ignored when examining…

Support for female international business travellers in dual-career families

Katharina Puchmüller, Iris Fischlmayr

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate experiences of female international business travellers living in dual-career families (DCFs) who also have childcare obligations. In…

Boundary management in a boundaryless world: The impact of life domain boundary management for expatriates’ life domain conflict and enrichment

Regina Kempen, Kate Hattrup, Karsten Mueller

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship of flexible and permeable boundary management with both life domain conflict and life domain enrichment among…

Repatriation and (perceived) organisational support (POS): The role of and interaction between repatriation supporters

Liza Howe-Walsh, Nicole Torka

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of and interaction between (potential) repatriation supporters to develop understanding of how this affects the repatriate…

Threatened identities: adjustment narratives of expatriate spouses

Heidi Ellise Collins, Santina Bertone

The purpose of this paper is to explore changes in the identity constructions of expatriate accompanying spouses, as experienced throughout their first year of adjustment to…

Unpacking differences in psychological contracts of organizational and self-initiated expatriates

Kate Yue Zhang, Bart Rienties

Global staffing has remained a main focus within the field of international human resource management (IHRM) since the 1970s. However, research in the psychological contract (PC…