A preliminary model of spouse influence on managerial global assignment willingness

By Robert Konopaske, C. Robie, J. Ivancevich. 2005

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Expatriate assignments and intra-organizational career success: implications for individuals and organizations (2007, background): “of managers who possess such skills (e.g., Gregersen et al., 1998; Konopaske et al., 2005).”
Managing global talent: solving the spousal adjustment problem (2011, methodology): “It has been suggested that a more fine-grained analysis of the employment status of expatriate couples should be employed, based on the fact that the spouse may have an “income” versus a “career” orientation to his or her employment (Harvey, 1997; Shaffer and Harrison, 2001; Konopaske et al., 2005).”
Why do they go? Empirical evidence of employees' motives for seeking or accepting relocation (2009, background): “It is uncertain whether the willingness to agree to an international assignment would necessarily translate into the actual decision to accept such an offer if it was made (Konopaske et al. 2005).”