Cultural distance asymmetry in expatriate adjustment

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Do We Need to Distance Ourselves from the Distance Concept? Why Home and Host Country Context Might Matter More Than (Cultural) Distance (2015, background): “Ensuing empirical papers by Selmer et al. (2007), Brock et al. (2008) and Lee et al. (2008) deal with specific operationalization problems of the cultural distance concept, such as the ‘illusion of symmetry’.”
Values, schemas, and norms in the culture–behavior nexus: A situated dynamics framework (2015, background): “Consider the conclusion of Shenkar (2001) that the symmetrical effects of cultural distance have no clear support, and an example is that German firms operating in the United States are not in an equivalent situation as American firms operating in Germany.”
Beyond Hofstede and GLOBE: Improving the quality of cross-cultural research (2010, background): “For example, Selmer, Chiu, and Shenkar (2007) found that it was much easier for 38 German expatriates to adjust comfortably in the United States than for 25 American expatriates in Germany, suggesting a substantial asymmetry in distance experienced by the two countries’ actors.”
Expatriate Development for Cross-Cultural Adjustment (2012, background): “Hence, individuals need to adjust to their environment rather than the other way round (Jan et al., 2007).”