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Are Self-Initiated Expatriates Born or Made? Exploring the Relationship between SIE Orientation and Individual ROI

In: Talent Management of Self-Initiated Expatriates

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  • Yvonne McNulty

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Extant literature has argued that employee turnover is almost always an undesirable outcome (e.g., Shaw, Gupta, & Delery, 2005), and in the expatriate context even more challenging due to the high costs associated with utilizing international assignees (Haslberger & Vaiman, 2010). Clearly, the loss of company-assigned (CA) expatriates during an international assignment is not an outcome multinational corporations (MNCs) expect, given the strategic importance of global staffing toward achieving longer-term succession and management development initiatives (Haslberger & Brewster, 2009). Yet, in a recent study of individual return on investment (ROI), it was found that CA expatriates’ intent to leave during an assignment is not only relatively high but also growing, in light of the significant challenges, as well as opportunities, presented to them as a result of the “global war for talent” (McNulty, De Cieri, & Hutchings, 2013). In this chapter, I draw on a study of 71 long-term expatriates to closely examine the phenomenon of CA expatriates being pushed toward a self-initiated expatriate (SIE) orientation while employed by an MNC.

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  • Yvonne McNulty, 2013. "Are Self-Initiated Expatriates Born or Made? Exploring the Relationship between SIE Orientation and Individual ROI," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Vlad Vaiman & Arno Haslberger (ed.), Talent Management of Self-Initiated Expatriates, chapter 3, pages 30-58, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-39280-9_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230392809_3
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    1. Thomas Köllen & Andri Koch & Andreas Hack, 2020. "Nationalism at Work: Introducing the “Nationality-Based Organizational Climate Inventory” and Assessing Its Impact on the Turnover Intention of Foreign Employees," Management International Review, Springer, vol. 60(1), pages 97-122, February.
    2. Émilie Lapointe & Christian Vandenberghe & Shea X. Fan, 2022. "Psychological contract breach and organizational cynicism and commitment among self-initiated expatriates vs. host country nationals in the Chinese and Malaysian transnational education sector," Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Springer, vol. 39(1), pages 319-342, March.
    3. Hussain, Taiba & Deery, Stephen, 2018. "Why do self-initiated expatriates quit their jobs: The role of job embeddedness and shocks in explaining turnover intentions," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 27(1), pages 281-288.

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