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Expatriate Selection: Insuring Success and Avoiding Failure

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  • Richard D Hays

    (Tulane University)

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The experience of expatriate selection and assignment has been a mixed success for multinational firms. Several selection strategies have been used, but failure situations in individual assignment cases are known to be in nearly every multinational firm. New research has indicated that the problem of insuring success for an expatriate is quite different from the problem of avoiding failure. A different set of factors is critical to each of these two problems. When this distinction is made, the variables related to the expatriate selection and assignment problem are considerably more ordered and operable.© 1974 JIBS. Journal of International Business Studies (1974) 5, 25–37

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  • Richard D Hays, 1974. "Expatriate Selection: Insuring Success and Avoiding Failure," Journal of International Business Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Academy of International Business, vol. 5(1), pages 25-37, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:jintbs:v:5:y:1974:i:1:p:25-37
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    5. Yoshitaka Yamazaki, 2010. "Expatriate Adaptation," Management International Review, Springer, vol. 50(1), pages 81-108, February.
    6. Fiona Horton Medich, 1995. "The management of expatriates: Implications for agribusiness," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 11(4), pages 383-389.
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