Revisiting repatriation concerns: organizational support versus career and contextual influences

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Lazarova, Mila B.; Cerdin, Jean-Luc
• 署名单位: Simon Fraser University; ESSEC Business School
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400273
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 404-429
• 关键词: repatriation retention; ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT; career activism

摘要

This paper reviews and integrates two perspectives on repatriate retention: a traditional one, which suggests that the main determinant of repatriate retention is the availability of repatriation support programs; and an emerging one, which focuses on individual career activism in a changing employment context. Results of a study of 133 expatriates from 14 MNCs indicate that both views contribute to our understanding of repatriate retention. Building on the results of our study, we put forward a framework to guide future research.