2005
DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2005.08.007
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Developing career capital for global careers: The role of international assignments

Abstract: Creating organizational processes which nurture global careers is a key task for global companies. International assignments are normally viewed as positive by both individuals and organizations for the development of global career competencies. This paper reports a qualitative study into the effects of international assignments on global careers. Adding to the literature, the research takes account of the dual dependency within global careers by contrasting individual and organizational perspectives. It highl… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
2
1
1
1

Citation Types

4
173
1
6

Year Published

2009
2009
2021
2021

Publication Types

Select...
9

Relationship

0
9

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 215 publications
(184 citation statements)
references
References 27 publications
(36 reference statements)
4
173
1
6
Order By: Relevance
“…Although some subsidiary managers were home country or third country nationals, most were host country nationals, and some had previously been expatriates. Having undertaken an international assignment in the past may help the subsidiary manager to "know-who" in developing a more-wide ranging interpersonal network (Dickmann & Harris, 2005;Hocking et al, 2004). …”
Section: Research Design and Settingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although some subsidiary managers were home country or third country nationals, most were host country nationals, and some had previously been expatriates. Having undertaken an international assignment in the past may help the subsidiary manager to "know-who" in developing a more-wide ranging interpersonal network (Dickmann & Harris, 2005;Hocking et al, 2004). …”
Section: Research Design and Settingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…With respect to the environment, corporeal mobility has been linked with high carbon emissions and therefore significant contributions to climate change (Gössling and Peeters 2007;Lassen 2010;Nevins 2014;Urry 2010;). In addition, it has been argued that corporeal mobility has an ambiguous relationship with career mobility (Dickmann and Harris 2005) and continuing gender inequality (Ackers 2008;Leemann 2010;Parker and Weik 2014). These high costs and inequalities make scholars question the value and necessity of repeated corporeal mobility (Ackers 2008), especially when innovative communication technologies-referred to here as virtual mobility-seem to offer ways to reconcile these costs (Urry 2002).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The career literature represents an appropriate starting point to study E&R (Baruch & Bozionelos, 2011). The intelligent career (Arthur, Claman, & DeFillippi, 1995;Jones & DeFillippi, 1996) was used for understanding motives and relevance for global assignments by Dickmann and Harris, (2005) and Jokinen, Brewster and Suutari (2008). In the course of expatriation, work and life issues become more interlinked as compared to a domestic assignment.…”
Section: Global Mobilitymentioning
confidence: 99%