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    The Organizational Self-Intiated Expatriate: A Case Study of a Professional Services Firm

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    Authors
    Richardson, J.
    McKenna, S.
    Dickie, Carolyn
    de Gama, N.
    Date
    2013
    Type
    Book Chapter
    
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    Richardson, Julia and McKenna, Steve and Dickie, Carolyn and de Gama, Nadia. 2013. The Organizational Self-Intiated Expatriate: A Case Study of a Professional Services Firm, in Vaiman, V. and Haslberger, A. (ed), Talent management of self-initiated expatriates: A neglected source of global talent. pp. 59-87. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
    Source Title
    Talent management of self-initiated expatriates: A neglected source of global talent
    DOI
    10.1057/9780230392809_4
    ISBN
    9780230392793
    School
    School of Management
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32322
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Scholarly and practitioner research on the assigned expatriate (AE) is extensive and continues to evolve as global business practices adjust to the changing economic climate. Over the past 15 years or so, and particularly more recently, there has been increasing scholarly interest in what is now widely known as the “self-initiated expatriate” (SIE). The study of expatriates who self-initiate (i.e., rather than being sent by an employer) has emerged in a number of disciplines (Farrer, 2010; Fechter & Walsh, 2010; Korpela, 2010; Leonard, 2010) and reflects the increasing complexity of movement and mobility in the twenty-first century (McKenna & Richardson, 2007). One of the first studies in the field by Inkson, Arthur, Pringle, and Barry (1997) investigated New Zealanders undertaking overseas experience and identified differences from the AE model (Inkson et al., 1997; Inkson & Myers, 2003). Their study makes an important contribution by highlighting a different kind of independent expatriate experience rather than being sent as part of a corporate assignment.

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