Person-environment fit and emotional control: Assigned expatriates vs. self-initiated expatriates

Lauring, Jakob; Selmer, Jan

doi:10.1016/j.ibusrev.2018.02.010

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“…Expatriate adaptation has been a subject of growing interest in human resource management, organizational behavior, and cross-cultural psychology literature in which authors have interpreted expatriate adaptation through various theoretical models (Bierwiaczonek and Waldzus 2016). Among these, the P-E fit framework has been a successfully used theoretical lens explicating the expatriate adaptation process (Haslberger and Brewster 2009; Haslberger, Brewster, and Hippler 2013; Haslberger and Dickmann 2016; Lauring and Selmer 2018; Stoermer et al 2018). Owing to its wide conceptual application, the P-E framework has been used to assess the degree of fit between individuals and various types of environments (general, living, and working).…”

Section: Conceptual Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Expatriate Consumers’ Adaptations and Food Brand Choices: A Compensatory Control Perspective

Miočević¹,

Zdravković²

2020

Journal of International Marketing

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The number of expatriates has been steadily growing during the last two decades. For these reasons, academia has exhibited a growing research interest in expatriates’ food consumption choices. Although interest is there, the extant literature is inconclusive about conditions under which expatriate consumers make trade-offs between host-country (local) and global food products and brands. The present study presents mechanisms that explain expatriate consumers’ compensatory coping behaviors and choices between local versus global food brands. By drawing on compensatory control theory and the person–environment fit framework, the authors test the influence of adaptation efforts and retail system properties on expatriate consumers’ food brand choices. Survey findings from 232 expatriates who currently live in five Middle Eastern countries reveal that a higher engagement in adaptation efforts (acculturation and general adjustment) leads to a dominant preference for local (vs. global) food brands. Moreover, this study illuminates the importance of retail system properties by showing that a host country’s retail system development positively moderates the relationship between adaptation efforts and local food brand choices, whereas retail similarity has a negative impact.

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Section: Conceptual Developmentmentioning

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Expatriate Consumers’ Adaptations and Food Brand Choices: A Compensatory Control Perspective

Miočević¹,

Zdravković²

2020

Journal of International Marketing

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“…What emerged about self-expatriation raises the issue of SIEs' country and ethnic origin in the experience and outcomes of that endeavor. In recent years, and as work on self-initiated expatriation grows in volume, authors have looked at various factors to explain SIEs' adaptation and success in host countries (e.g., Bozionelos, 2009;Cao et al, 2013;Selmer et al, 2015;Husssain and Deery, 2018;Lauring and Selmer, 2018). However, the ethnicity and the country of origin of the SIE has not been openly discussed or empirically considered thus far.…”

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Career Barriers of Chinese Self-Expatriate Women: Neither Double Jeopardy nor Ethnic Prominence

Bozionelos

2020

Front. Psychol.

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The study explored barriers to career progression of Chinese self-initiated expatriate (SIE) women in the United Kingdom using semi-structured interviews with two matched samples of Chinese SIE and native Caucasian British women. Double jeopardy and ethnic prominence offered the theoretical backdrop. Common gender-related career hindering factors emerged in both groups. However, no barriers due to ethnicity per se emerged for the Chinese SIE women, whilst their narrations revealed that the Chinese stereotype had rather facilitated their careers in the host country. Furthermore, they did not view self-expatriation as a particularly challenging endeavor. None of the two interpretative frameworks deployed, double jeopardy and ethnic prominence, could account for the findings. The study implies that the effects of ethnicity on self-expatriation experiences and outcomes may be contingent on SIEs' ethnic and cultural origins. In addition, the findings imply that women who self-expatriate to escape gendered opportunities in their home countries may face similar gender-related barriers in host countries.

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“…Person-environment fit theory provides a basis for this claim, as well as for the subsequent predictions about the moderating effect of the institutional environment in this positive relationship (see Section 2.2). This useful framework from interactional psychology (Lee et al, 2010;Schneider, 2001;Verquer et al, 2003;Yang et al, 2008) has been applied in diverse research contexts, including organizational psychology, organizational behaviour, and human resource management, particularly with respect to work-related outcomes such as well-being and occupational stress (Edwards and Cooper, 1990;Edwards and Rothbard, 1999;Kristof-Brown et al, 2005;Lauring and Selmer, 2018;Yang et al, 2008). It establishes the premise that individual attitudes, intentions, behaviours, and outcomes (e.g., life satisfaction, health, stress) result from the interaction of the person and the environment (Edwards, 1996;Edwards and Rothbard, 1999;Lewin, 1935;Murray, 1938;Pervin, 1989;Yang et al, 2008).…”

Section: Entrepreneurship and Life Satisfactionmentioning

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Greater fit and a greater gap

Brieger

Clercq

Hessels

et al. 2020

IJEBR

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand how national institutional environments contribute to differences in life satisfaction between entrepreneurs and employees. Design/methodology/approach Leveraging person–environment fit and institutional theories and using a sample of more than 70,000 entrepreneurs and employees from 43 countries, the study investigates how the impact of entrepreneurial activity on life satisfaction differs in various environmental contexts. An entrepreneur’s life satisfaction arguably should increase when a high degree of compatibility or fit exists between his or her choice to be an entrepreneur and the informal and formal institutional environment. Findings The study finds that differences in life satisfaction between entrepreneurs and employees are larger in countries with high power distance, low uncertainty avoidance, extant entrepreneurship policies, low commercial profit taxes and low worker rights. Originality/value This study sheds new light on how entrepreneurial activity affects life satisfaction, contingent on the informal and formal institutions in a country that support entrepreneurship by its residents.

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Person-environment fit and emotional control: Assigned expatriates vs. self-initiated expatriates

Cited by 57 publications

References 108 publications

Expatriate Consumers’ Adaptations and Food Brand Choices: A Compensatory Control Perspective

Expatriate Consumers’ Adaptations and Food Brand Choices: A Compensatory Control Perspective

Career Barriers of Chinese Self-Expatriate Women: Neither Double Jeopardy nor Ethnic Prominence

Greater fit and a greater gap

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