Flexpatriate assignments: a neglected issue in global staffing

By Helene Mayerhofer, Linley C. Hartmann, Gabriela Michelitsch-Riedl, Iris Kollinger. 2004

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Subfields: Communication, Strategy and Management

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1. David G. Collings
2. H. Scullion
3. Paul Sparrow
4. M. Morley
5. Jeffrey H. Greenhaus
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2. Paul Sparrow
3. David G. Collings
4. T. Hippler
5. H. Scullion
6. Jeffrey H. Greenhaus

Citations in the corpus

• Changing patterns of global staffing in the multinational enterprise: Challenges to the conventional expatriate assignment and emerging alternatives (2007, background): “The available evidence suggests that cross-cultural issues are at least as important in non-traditional international assignments as in traditional ones (Mayerhofer et, 2004).”
• The Contemporary Career: A Work–Home Perspective (2014, background): “…international business travelers who regularly travel for work without their family members, (d) employees who take short-term global assignments of less than a year, and (e) flexpatriates who are regularly dispatched for brief (1–2-month) assignments without their families (Mayrhofer et al. 2004).”
• Why do they go? Empirical evidence of employees' motives for seeking or accepting relocation (2009, background): “…alternative forms develop alongside the continued use of long-term international assignments rather than replacing them (Harris and Petrovic 2000; Mayerhofer et al. 2004; ISSN 0958-5192 print/ISSN 1466-4399 online q 2009 Taylor & Francis DOI: 10.1080/09585190902909889…”
• Globalization of HR at function level: four UK-based case studies of the international recruitment and selection process (2007, background): “…group of individuals, ranging from: contract expatriates (Baruch and Altman, 2002); assignees on short-term or intermediate term foreign postings (Mayerhofer et al., 2004a; Morley and Heraty, 2004); permanent cadres of global managers (Suutari, 2003); international commuters (The Economist,…”