Expatriate Leadership Experience: Host Country Burden or Resource?

Globalization has resulted in an economic environment where organizations possess many opportunities – and face increasing pressure – to expand internationally. With any international venture, one concern is that poor management of foreign operations will result in monetary losses for the organization. To guard against this possibility, expatriation has become a key means by which organizations ensure success in foreign operations, develop cross-culturally competent managers, and transfer organizational knowledge across work units (Collings et al. 2007). In response to the important role that expatriates play in multinational organizations’ international strategies, a sizable psychological literature has developed that explores the unique challenges associated