Developing career capital for global careers: The role of international assignments

By M. Dickmann, H. Harris. 2005

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Subfields: Communication, Education, Political Science and International Relations

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Global staffing: a review and thematic research agenda (2009, background): “A recent empirical contribution on this issue concluded that ‘the link between an IA (international assignment) and the organisation's benefits in career capital augmentation is… tenuous’, reflecting the fact that international assignments may be more beneficial from an individual career perspective”
Expatriates' developmental networks: network diversity, base, and support functions (2011, background): “The current career context presents a number of challenges posed by increasing uncertainty, a faster pace of change, workforce diversity, and globalization ( Dickmann and Harris, 2005”
Exploring the motives of company-backed and self-initiated expatriates (2011, background): “The anticipation of benefits are formative in the decision to take an assignment but recently many employees have become more judicious about the prospective career benefits, and in particular, the repatriation element of the expatriate cycle (Bolino and Feldman 2000; Dickmann and Harris 2005; Doher”
Self‐initiated expatriates and their career success (2012, background): “International work experience is generally regarded as an effective way to acquire career capital (Dickmann and Harris, 2005).”
Coping with work-family conflicts in the global career context (2011, background): “International jobs are thus perceived to be very challenging but at the same time very developmental (Bossard & Peterson, 2005; Dickman & Harris, 2005; Suutari & Mäkelä, 2007).”
13_2_30: Experiences, perceptions and expectations of retail employment for Generation Y (2007, unknown): “…this part of the research is considered adequate and indeed reflects sample sizes of studies conducted elsewhere (Sturges,1999; Simpson, 2004; 2005; Dickmann and Harris, 2005; Lewis, 2005; 2006; Kirton, 2006; O'Donohoe and Turley, 2007; Constanti, and Gibbs, 2007; Cooke, 2007; Jack and Lorbiecki…”
Skilled migrants' career capital as a source of competitive advantage: implications for strategic HRM (2015, background): “Equally important in future work on this topic may be to understand how local organizations may further build and enhance SMs’ career capital during their tenure with local employers (Dickmann & Harris, 2005).”
Is expatriation good for my career? The impact of expatriate assignments on perceived and actual career outcomes (2008, background): “Calls for additional research on the career outcomes of international assignments to address this disconnect began in the 1990s and continue today (Tung 1998; Welch 1998; Brewster and Suutari 2005; Bonache 2005; Dickmann and Harris 2005).”
Why do they go? Individual and corporate perspectives on the factors influencing the decision to accept an international assignment (2008, background): “Increasingly, authors have proposed the importance of exploring the interplay of individuals and organizations in expatriation as it influences the decisions and behaviours of managers (Larsen 2004 ; Dickmann and Harris 2005 ; Vance 2005 ; Yan et al.”