Advancing Expatriate Research in Public and Private Sectors

Globalization is a complex and ongoing challenge for contemporary organizations. Foreign markets continually grow in importance as sources of business revenues. Organizations increasingly rely on employees sent on international assignments to forge international connections, set up and manage foreign establishments, fix problems, and otherwise manage their global business operations (BGRS 2016). As companies come to rely on expatriates for running their foreign investments, they are confronted with the unique challenges of managing an international workforce. Companies capable of meeting these challenges have a distinct competitive advantage and outperform those that cannot (Guthridge/Komm 2008). At the same time, global human resource