Journal of Global Mobility: Volume 7 Issue 2

The dark side of expatriation: dysfunctional relationships, expatriate crises, predjudice and a VUCA world

Benjamin Bader, Tassilo Schuster, Anna Katharina Bader, Margaret Shaffer

A model of the dark side of expatriate–host country national relationships

Jasenko Ljubica, Margaret Shaffer, Sabrina Tin, Kevin McKouen

The purpose of this paper is to develop a nomological model of the dark side of expatriate–host country national (HCN) relationships by identifying and explaining the development…

Highway to Hell? Managing expatriates in crisis

Yvonne McNulty, Jakob Lauring, Charlotte Jonasson, Jan Selmer

The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework of severe expatriate crises focusing on the occurrence of “fit-dependent” crisis events, which is when the crisis is…

Congruence of economic mobility beliefs and immigrants’ self-esteem

Laura Guerrero, Luciana Turchick Hakak

A dark side of global mobility is that many immigrants have negative work outcomes. Studies have analyzed the antecedents to poor work outcomes from the immigrants’ point of view…

The Global Mobility function: From tightrope walker performing a balancing act towards knowledge broker and linchpin

Reimara Valk

The purpose of this paper is to explore the transformation of the Global Mobility (GM) function within global organisations from a tactical/transactional into a strategic function…

Children of expatriates: key factors affecting their adjustment

Isabel de Sivatte, Bernadette Bullinger, Miguel Cañamero, Mónica del Pino Martel Gomez

The purpose of this paper is to study the antecedents of the adjustment of expatriate children to foreign destinations. This process of adjustment is partly explained by the…