A Multi-country Study of Factors Influencing Expatriate Career Intentions

Joardar, Arpita; Weisang, Guillaume

doi:10.1016/j.intman.2018.12.001

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“…A longitudinal analysis conducted in Portuguese college students indicated that higher academic adaptation may lead to better global life satisfaction [19]. Moreover, as Joardar and Weisang pointed out, an inability to adapt may result in dissatisfaction [20]. Another study suggested that the adjustment to and satisfaction with retirement were correlated [21].…”

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Association between Cross-Cultural Social Adaptation and Overseas Life Satisfaction among Chinese Medical Aid Team Members (CMATMs) in Africa

Chen

Liu

Yü

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This study evaluated the relationship between cross-cultural social adaptation and overseas life satisfaction among Chinese medical aid team members (CMATMs) in Africa. A revised Chinese version of the Sociocultural Adaptation Scale (CSCAS) was used to measure participants’ cross-cultural social adaptation. The self-designed survey of the CMATMs’ overseas life satisfaction includes the following five aspects: food, housing, transportation, entertainment, and security. Electronic questionnaires were distributed non-randomly. Linear regression models were established to explore the association between cross-cultural social adaptation and all dimensions of overseas life satisfaction. After adjusting all the confounders, compared with moderate adaptation, poor adaptation was negatively correlated with all dimensions of overseas life satisfaction (B for food = −0.71, B for housing = −0.76, B for transportation = −0.70, B for entertainment = −0.53, B for security = −0.81, B for overall satisfaction = −0.71, all p < 0.001), whereas good adaptation was positively associated with all dimensions of overseas life satisfaction (B for food = 1.23, B for housing = 1.00, B for transportation = 0.84, B for entertainment = 0.84, B for security = 0.76, B for overall life satisfaction = 0.94, all p < 0.001). This study shows that a better cross-cultural social adaptation was positively connected to a higher level of overseas life satisfaction in general, and more specifically to higher levels of satisfaction with food, housing, transportation, entertainment, and security. This knowledge can be utilized in promoting cross-cultural social adaptation and overseas life satisfaction among CMATMs in Africa.

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Association between Cross-Cultural Social Adaptation and Overseas Life Satisfaction among Chinese Medical Aid Team Members (CMATMs) in Africa

Chen

Liu

Yü

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“…The relationship between entrepreneurial self-efficacy and intention to create a company has been highlighted in numerous previous studies, although this relationship is mediated by attitude towards entrepreneurship and perceived behavioural control (Doanh & Bernat, 2019;Utamin, 2017). Perceived confidence, in terms of self-efficacy, is key in the context of international careers (Joardar & Weisang, 2019;Prebistero & Quita, 2017). Cognitive cultural competence explains the behaviour of the participants in our study, though to a lesser degree than expected.…”

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Predicting global entrepreneurship: An exploratory study

Torres-Coronas

Vidal-Blasco

2021

educar

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Globalization provides international career opportunities and options, such as entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship education is currently promoted in both national and European educational strategies. For university students, the viability of this career option depends on their own motivations, perceived competencies, and professional objectives. This study uses a structural equations model analyses the factors that affect the intention to create an international company. It focuses on how intercultural skills, cognitive cultural intelligence, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and linguistic competence affects students’ motivation to create a company with an international vocation. The results of the study show that proficiency in a foreign language, language competence, and entrepreneurial self-efficacy are relevant factors. The research also discusses the implications of these results for teaching in higher education institutions. There is a need to update graduates’ employability skills and the competences that future teachers must acquire.

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“…Moreover, the proposed model focused on the psychological variables that affect individuals' decision to engage or not in global mobility because they are the most practical level at which people can intervene in human behavior affairs (Ryan and Deci, 2017). Organizations' support systems and career management practices (Dickmann et al, 2008;Joardar and Weisang, 2019), however, may also influence individuals' motivations, attitudes and their actual relocation. In this regard, future studies could identify and incorporate theoretically driven organizational-level variables to elucidate the influence chain leading to individuals' decision-making to engage in GM.…”

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“…, 2015; Froese et al. , 2013; Joardar and Weisang, 2019). TPB focuses on three socio-cognitive variables (attitude, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control).…”

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“…Therefore, changing behaviors require analysis at the psychological level (Ryan and Deci, 2017), which led scholars to apply the theory of planned behavior (TPB) (Ajzen, 1985) to explain individuals' intention to expatriate (e.g. Engle et al, 2015;Joardar and Weisang, 2019). TPB focuses on three socio-cognitive variables (attitude, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control).…”

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A conceptual model of individuals' decision to engage in global mobility: integrating self-determination theory and theory of planned behavior

Quatrin,

Aguzzoli,

Lengler

2024

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PurposeCompanies target globally mobile workers and face the war for talent, while individuals are more reluctant to engage in global mobility. This scenario led us to propose a model to understand the individuals' decision process to engage in global mobility.Design/methodology/approachBuilding on the self-determination theory, the theory of planned behavior and the literature on decisions for global mobility, the authors propose mechanisms through which psychological variables and assignments' factual and perceived contextual aspects (directly or indirectly) explain the decision to engage or not in global mobility.FindingsThis study offers a conceptual model with the authors' novel propositions to explain individuals' decision to engage in global mobility.Originality/valueThe model provides a more comprehensive explanation of the individuals' decision-making process to engage in global mobility than previous models and potentially yields more effective organizational practices to attract both well-established and emerging phenomena of globally mobile workers.

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A Multi-country Study of Factors Influencing Expatriate Career Intentions

Cited by 8 publications

References 70 publications

Association between Cross-Cultural Social Adaptation and Overseas Life Satisfaction among Chinese Medical Aid Team Members (CMATMs) in Africa

Association between Cross-Cultural Social Adaptation and Overseas Life Satisfaction among Chinese Medical Aid Team Members (CMATMs) in Africa

Predicting global entrepreneurship: An exploratory study

A conceptual model of individuals' decision to engage in global mobility: integrating self-determination theory and theory of planned behavior

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