IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/jomstd/v28y1991i4p417-428.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Impact Of Spouse'S Career‐Orientation On Managers During International Transfers

Author

Listed:
  • Gregory K. Stephens
  • Stewart Black

Abstract

The increasing internationalization of business and the rise of dual‐earner couples in the labour force combine to make the area of international human resource management and career development complex and important. This article examines results obtained from 67 American expatriate managers (EXM) in Japan of whom 47 per cent were part of a dual‐earner couple in America. the study found that career‐oriented spouses were almost seven times as likely to find employment after an international transfer as non‐career‐oriented spouses. It is argued that because career‐oriented spouses in general were able to find employment and avoid major job interruptions, there was no significant difference between the adjustment of expatriate managers whose spouses worked in the US before the transfer but not after and EXMs whose spouses worked before and after the transfer.

Suggested Citation

  • Gregory K. Stephens & Stewart Black, 1991. "The Impact Of Spouse'S Career‐Orientation On Managers During International Transfers," Journal of Management Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 28(4), pages 417-428, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jomstd:v:28:y:1991:i:4:p:417-428
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.1991.tb00289.x
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.1991.tb00289.x
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/j.1467-6486.1991.tb00289.x?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Sana Mumtaz & Sadia Nadeem, 2024. "Examining the distinct role of expatriates in top management teams during international assignments: a systematic review and a way forward," Management Review Quarterly, Springer, vol. 74(3), pages 1669-1693, September.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:jomstd:v:28:y:1991:i:4:p:417-428. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0022-2380 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.