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Cogent Business & Management, 2015 This paper aims to propose a conceptual model of knowledge transfer by relating two specific personal factors of expatriate and host country national (HCN) dyads as antecedents of knowledge transfer, and mediated by social capital factors.
Maimunah Ismail
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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Ser (um) expatriado, numa empresa: uma obrigação, uma distinção, um parêntese
Sociologia: Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 2019 The sense of ambivalence that tends to be associated with the representation of an expatriation as a contemporary work arrangement form used to anchor business internationalization processes, constitutes the problematizing axis of the research reported
João Vasco Coelho
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Mobility, white bodies and desire: Euro-American women in Jakarta [PDF]
, 2015 This paper illustrates how cultural logics of desire are being transformed in the context of the global economy refashioning intimate lives. Exploring the experiences of Euro-American female professionals in Jakarta, it suggests that they become ...
Fechter, Anne-Meike
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Highly Educated, New Foreign Workers' Acculturation and Coping Mechanisms in a Large Korean Company
Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The need for skilled foreign workers in South Korea (Korea hereafter) has grown substantially due Korea's changing workforce demographics, skill mismatch, transformation of business portfolios, and the pursuit of globalized business. As a result, large Korean companies have begun to recruit highly educated foreign workers for global talent ...
Dae Seok Chai
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Russian-speaking expats in the Middle East countries
RUDN journal of Sociology, 2019 The present scale of labor migration of highly qualified specialists determines the necessity to study the essence and consequences of this social phenomenon.
M M Akulich
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Expatriate career support: predicting expatriate turnover and performance [PDF]
The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2009 This study aimed at explaining why multinational companies have difficulty retaining their repatriates as well as how multinational companies can improve in- and expatriate performance. In the study 100 in- and expatriates of a multinational company operating in the food and personal care industry reported the career support they experienced, their ...
van der Heijden, J.A.V. +2 more
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Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Field visits are common phenomena with non‐governmental organisations in Uganda. During these visits, Ugandan national staff guide visitors on series of meetings and interactions in the field. Following an actor‐oriented approach and drawing on ethnographic data on 14 field visits, this paper understands the field visit as a microcosm for the ...
Caspar Edward Swinkels
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Photo Synthesis: The Expatriate Family Album as Historiography
Proceedings from the Document Academy, 2017 I want to look at the expatriate family album as a site of history-writing. Through an examination of three photographs from my childhood in West Asia, I try to think about the idea of historical space and time through the visual narratives available to ...
Kamayani Sharma
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The Devil Finds Work: A Hollywood Love Story (as Written by James Baldwin)
James Baldwin Review, 2021 Baldwin’s The Devil Finds Work (1976) has proven challenging since its publication because readers and critics have trouble classifying it. The challenge may be related to a common feature of Baldwin criticism, namely a tendency to compare late career ...
D. Quentin Miller
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