The Other and the Expat: A Story of Internalization
(2019) , 11 pages
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- In an era where talents tend to be on the move, understanding the reasons and processes behind the mobility of highly qualified workers plays a key role in developing a sustainable organizational strategy. In this paper we focus on in-depth qualitative interviews with self-initiated expatriates, an understudied valuable expatriation category. This contribution examines their decision-making process to relocate. We therefore shift the focus in analyses of this process away from considering expatriation only as a matter of an SIE’s ego and cognitive processes in relation to career development. Instead, this work focuses on co-construction dynamics and moves beyond treating expatriate decision-making as a purely individual matter. We therefore reveal the unsuspected role played by identity-related issues in the decision to relocate.
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Moulaï, K. (2019). The Other and the Expat: A Story of Internalization (Louvain Research Institute in Management and Organizations Working Paper Series 2019/20). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/98218