IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/hal/journl/halshs-00738553.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Self-Initiated Repatriation at the Interplay Between Field, Capital, and Habitus

Author

Listed:
  • Maike Andresen
  • Matthias Walther

    (Laboratoire de Recherche Magellan - UJML - Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 - Université de Lyon - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Lyon)

Abstract

Self-initiated repatriation (SIR) remains an under-researched topic. Applying Bourdieu's theory of practice (1972), we conducted a qualitative study and investigated SIR into the Danish, French, and German career field. We found that expatriation leads to a modification of the habitus and career capital. While economic capital issues were not found to play a major role, the modified habitus only appeared to affect the return into the Danish career field where self-initiated expatriation was valued negatively. Especially the modified set of cultural and social capital was pertinent for re-entering the French and German career field. Theoretical and practical implications are illustrated.

Suggested Citation

  • Maike Andresen & Matthias Walther, 2012. "Self-Initiated Repatriation at the Interplay Between Field, Capital, and Habitus," Post-Print halshs-00738553, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00738553
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00738553. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: CCSD (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.