Managing Expatriates

Preface

The extraordinary growth in corporate globalization and the corresponding rise in global mobility provide the basic leitmotif of this highly accessible, reflective book. Employing a science-practice approach, and drawing upon multiple sources of evidence, not least the “lived experience” itself, for which of course there are few substitutes, McNulty and Inkson present a rich and compelling narrative around the requirement for a fundamental paradigm shift in how we understand global mobility and how we evaluate it. This shift, directed at jettisoning the all-too-common piecemeal, transactional approach, in favor of a more strategic, integrated one, is occasioned because the expatriate management model characteristic of the theoretical ...