Reading 3.3 The Compensation of Corporate Expatriates

Jaime Bonache, Celia Zárraga-Oberty, and Luigi Stirpe

DOI: 10.4324/9781003247272-19

Introduction

The divide between the professional and academic world, analysed at length in the general management literature, finds an illustrative example in the field of international compensation. While the academic literature has paid this subject very little attention, it is a very important factor in the professional world. Human resource professionals working in multinational corporations (MNCs) report that the problems associated with the design and management of expatriates’ pay packages take up most of their time and energy (Bonache, Sánchez, & Zárraga-Oberty, 2009; Caligiuri & Bonache, 2016

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