Expatriate Management: New Ideas for International Business

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Selmer and his contributors tackle one of the most challenging topics in international business today: how to manage human resources on a global scale. Drawing upon academic research and practical experience, they cover expatriation and impatriation as a way to internationalise managers; the problems of change, adaptation, adjustment that affect international executives; and the policies that would ensure equitable treatment of third country nationals. A unique, wide-ranging volume without esoteric jargon and abstruse statistical analyses, "Expatriate Management" offers not only an inventory of challenging new ideas that can be put to practical use today, but also a set of workable policy recommendations for the future. Professor Rosalie L. Tung The Ming and Stella Wong Professor of International Business Simon Fraser University

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"An excellent collection of essays on the key issues in expatriate management. The book should be useful to academics and practitioners alike."- Professor Randall S. Schuler Strategic and International Human Resource Management New York University
"Effective development and management of expatriates are pivotal to successful operations across international boundaries. Selmer's edited book of readings provides useful insights on the why, what, and how of expatriate management. It also explores future trends on that subject."- Professor Rosalie L. Tung The Ming and Stella Wong Professor of International Business Simon Fraser University
"The blending of academic investigation with practical application and recommendations ensures that this book will be of value to practitioners and scholars alike."- Professor Peter J. Dowling, Academic Dean Faculty of Commerce and Economics University of Tasmania, Australia
"This book shows how to reap high rewards from such strategically important moves. It provides timely, research-based insights into key issues that affect expatriates and their families before, during, and after their international assignments."- Professor Wayne F. Cascio Director of International Programs University of Colorado, Denver
"This is a very timely book. With the increasing worldwide emphasis on managerial issues relating to international business, this collection of papers on expatriate management helps to illuminate some very important issues."-Professor Lyman W. Porter University of California, Irvine

Author Bio

JAN SELMER is Professor and Head of the Department of Management, School of Business, at Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong. He is also Associate Professor of Business Administration at Stockholm University, and has published four books and numerous journal articles. Among his various clients as a consultant are Nobel Industries, Scandinavian Airlines Systems, and Singapore Airlines.