Determinants of Expatriate Effectiveness: A Theoretical and Empirical Vacuum
- 1 July 1978
- journal article
- Published by Academy of Management in Academy of Management Review
- Vol. 3 (3) , 655-661
- https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.1978.4305937
Abstract
The article focuses on the effectiveness of expatriate managers and their organizations. Factors contributing to the adjustment process are corporate selection strategy, personality variables, life satisfaction, and organizational structure. A work adjustment theory is adopted from the research of L. H. Lofquist and R. V. Dawis and suggests that expatriate managers' work is affected by job satisfaction and the satisfactoriness of their job performance. The inference is based on two assumptions about maintaining correspondence with diverse environments while working in a foreign subsidiary.Keywords
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