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New Directions in Expatriate Research
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New Directions in Expatriate Research

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 plus...

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Editorial Rating

5

Qualities

  • Innovative

Recommendation

Michael J. Morley, Noreen Heraty and David G. Collings rightly indicate that globalization, joint ventures, strategic alliances and other forces in contemporary business make the subject of expatriation and expatriate management important. However, this compilation will probably interest academics more than businesspeople seeking guidance, because the discussion in most of its essays is more analytical than practical. The authors are academicians and their book addresses scholarly concerns. They make frequent allusions to research, but provide few examples of actual business experiences. Unfortunately, their writing has a rather pedantic, bookish personality as well, leading getAbstract to recommend the book primarily to other scholars in this area. However, businesspeople who need to know about the impact of expatriate assignments on their companies and their employees may want to accept these educational insights on their own terms. Academic information is considerably superior to no information at all.

Take-Aways

  • Companies increasingly depend on expatriates, but until recently, academics have done little research about them.
  • Calculating the return on your company's investment in expatriates may be important, but no one is quite sure how to do it.
  • Managing international human resources necessarily involves managing expatriates.

About the Authors

Michael J. Morley is assistant dean and director of the Graduate Center of Business at the University of Limerick, where Noreen Heraty is a lecturer on human resource management in the Kemmy Business School's department of personnel and employment relations. David G. Collings is a lecturer in human resource management and organizational behavior at the Sheffield University Management School, U.K.