“…Assignments are often characterized by so called expatriate crises that can evolve at micro (personal and family), meso (network and organisational domains) and macro (host country) levels. (McNulty et al, 2019) Expatriate adjustment is a dynamic, psychologically and contextually determined process (Banai, 2022;Mumtaz & Nadeem, 2022) and, constitutes a challenge to individuals paradoxically even in a culturally similar country (Vromans et al, 2013) It has been revealed that the most significant factors driving expatriate success are the following: cross-cultural competences, spousal support, motivational questions, time of assignment, emotional competences, previous international experience language fluency, social relational skills, cultural differences, and organizational recruitment and selection practices (Canhilal & Shemueli, 2015). In their review DeNisi and Sonesh (2016) propose a multidimensional model of success and failure in international assignments.…”