Model of cross-cultural adjustment and view of life-career among Japanese expatriate spouses in India

Matsumoto, Mutsuo; Gopal, Baiju

doi:10.1007/s12144-020-01100-9

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“…As described, Singaporeans' female spouses were willing to quit employment and revert to traditional gender roles, particularly when expatriates were offered high salaries and benefits that compensated for the loss of the spouse's income (Wan et al, 2003). A study of Japanese DCEs identified that female spouses perceived expatriation as a rich life-career experience; they felt confident in their ability to regain employment upon repatriation and thus were willing to support their husband's IA (Matsumoto and Gopal, 2020). Gupta et al (2012) identified that gender norms in India had a significant influence on the spouse's attitude to support IAs.…”

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Dual-career expatriate partners' motives for supporting international assignments: evidence from a patriarchal society

Nery-Kjerfve,

Polesello

2023

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PurposeExtant expatriate literature largely adopts a global north/western focus and expatriate-centric approach in investigating spousal/partners’ motives for supporting expatriation. Contrastingly, this study focuses on the lived experiences of dual-career female partners from an emerging global south economy and a patriarchal society as it relates to motives for supporting a partner’s international assignment (IA) to a developed country.Design/methodology/approachThis investigation adopts a hermeneutic interpretive phenomenology research design. Twelve career-oriented female partners from an emerging global south economy (Brazil) who supported a partner’s IA to a developed country (USA) participated in this study. The data included semi-structured interviews and field notes.FindingsThe study indicates that societal constraints, gendered career experiences and career and life stage reasons influenced women’s decision to engage in career opt out and/or interruption in support of their partners' IA. Further, patriarchal long-lasting structures and ideologies shaped women’s career experiences; women perceived IAs as a means of acquiring embodied and institutionalized cosmopolitan capital for themselves and their families in order to gain a better position in a transnational/globalized world.Research limitations/implicationsAlthough the sample size of this study is appropriate for the methodological choice adopted, future studies should include more participants and address different socioeconomic, political and cultural contexts.Originality/valueThis study highlights dual-career female partners' lived experiences in an emerging global south economy and a patriarchal society as it relates to motives for supporting IAs.

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confidence: 99%

“…, 2003). A study of Japanese DCEs identified that female spouses perceived expatriation as a rich life-career experience; they felt confident in their ability to regain employment upon repatriation and thus were willing to support their husband’s IA (Matsumoto and Gopal, 2020). Gupta et al.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dual-career expatriate partners' motives for supporting international assignments: evidence from a patriarchal society

Nery-Kjerfve,

Polesello

2023

JGM

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Model of cross-cultural adjustment and view of life-career among Japanese expatriate spouses in India

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Dual-career expatriate partners' motives for supporting international assignments: evidence from a patriarchal society

Dual-career expatriate partners' motives for supporting international assignments: evidence from a patriarchal society

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