Managing Expatriates

Acknowledgments

The idea for this book first came to Yvonne in 2007 when she was presenting her still-in-progress doctoral research on “expatriate ROI” at the invitation of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu at their global mobility conference in Barcelona, Spain. A standing ovation and over a hundred post-conference emails from participants wanting to know more about the topic planted the initial seed that a post-PhD book might be a worthwhile endeavor. Fast forward 3 years to the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management conference in 2010 in Adelaide, where Yvonne, her PhD now complete, met Kerr Inkson and boldly asked him to consider helping a junior scholar turn her now-completed doctoral thesis into a book: the rest, as they say, is history. ...