Self-Initiated Expatriates in Context: Recognizing Space, Time, and Institutions

This edited volume builds on the previous publication on self-initiated expatriation, exploring the role of context and its impact on career-related decisions and behaviors. It aims to deepen the understanding of SIEs careers, focusing on the contextual influences of space, time, and institutions. The book is written by established and emerging global academics and researchers and offers guidance for future research and managerial practice.

Format: Hardback
Length: 230 pages
Publication date: 02 October 2020
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This edited volume builds upon the previously published Self-Initiated Expatriation: Individual, Organizational, and National Perspectives, which provided in-depth insights into the concept and processes of self-initiated expatriation and showcased diverse groups embarking on self-initiated foreign career moves. While over a hundred articles on self-initiated expatriation (SIE) have been published in the interim, an examination of the research questions and samples of SIEs in published SIE research reveals that the role of context and its impact on SIEs career-related decisions and behaviors has not been sufficiently explored. This raises the question of how far existing research results can be comparable.

The aim of this follow-up volume is to deepen our understanding of SIEs careers, focusing on the contextual influences of space, time, and institutions on the heterogeneous SIE population. More specifically, the editors aim to shed light on spatial conditions, encompassing the home and host country conditions, on the self-initiated expatriation experience and examine developments over time in terms of temporality of conditions and SIEs life-course. Moreover, the influence of the institutional context, in terms of occupational, organizational, and societal specificities, will be analyzed. All chapters are based on robust theoretical foundations that serve to conceptualize context and are written by both established and emerging global academics and researchers.

Self-Initiated Expatriates in Context contributes to conceptual clarity in the burgeoning field of SIE research by emphasizing the significance of exploring context and, thus, boundary conditions to careers. It offers specific guidance for improving future SIE-related research endeavors.

Weight: 490g
Dimension: 158 x 235 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367371036