About the Presentation

Research on expatriation has traditionally centered on single, temporary international assignments, with limited attention to how expatriates’ experiences evolve over time. Based on our recent conceptual work, this webinar sets out to investigate the reasons and processes behind expatriates’ decision to extend their work and life abroad, thereby becoming long-term expatriates. Using an embeddedness perspective, we integrate organizational and community embeddedness with expatriate lifestyle embeddedness—introduced as a novel third dimension—to provide a more comprehensive understanding of expatriates’ embeddedness and its influence on their career decisions. We explore both the intrapersonal and interpersonal implications of long-term expatriation and identify critical areas of future research to further our understanding of the key attributes and international experiences that characterize long-term expatriates.

About the Speakers

• Jan Selmer is a professor emeritus, Department of Management at Aarhus University, Denmark. He received his Doctorate from Stockholm University, Sweden. His research interest lies in cross-cultural management with a special focus on global mobility. For two decades, he was a long-term expatriate as an academic, most of the time in Hong Kong. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Global Mobility. His academic production includes ten books and more than 150 articles in international peer-reviewed academic journals. He is the co-editor of the Research Handbook of Expatriates.
• B. Sebastian Reiche is professor of people management at IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. His research focuses on how to navigate the global work environment on issues ranging from different forms and experiences of global mobility, work design, global leadership, the role of language in international business, cultural identity, and empowerment in global organizations. His work has appeared in Academy of Management Discoveries, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Organization Science, among others. Sebastian’s contributions have also featured in the international press, including BBC Capital, The Economist, Financial Times, Forbes and Wall Street Journal. At IESE, he has designed, directed and delivered Custom Executive Education programs for a variety of companies, including Allianz, Boehringer Ingelheim, Deloitte, Salesforce and SAP. He serves as an Associate Editor for Human Resource Management and regularly blogs on topics related to global work (http://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus).
• Margaret Shaffer is the Michael F. Price Chair of International Business at the Price College of Business, the University of Oklahoma. She is an eminent scholar on global employee mobility and cross-cultural experiences. Her publications have appeared in many leading academic journals, such as the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, and Journal of International Business Studies. She has received numerous awards, including the first “Best International Paper” award from the Academy of Management. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Global Mobility and serves on several editorial boards.
• Stefan Jooss is a senior lecturer in management at UQ Business School, The University of Queensland, Australia. His main research interest and focus is human resource management, specifically in the areas of talent management, global mobility, and future of work. His work has been published in leading journals including Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Journal, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Human Resource Management Review, The International Journal of Human Resource Management and other outlets.

This session will be moderated by Miguel Olivas-Lujan, a professor at Pennsylvania Western University in the Department of Business, Economics and Communication, located in the United States.

About the Series

This event is part of an IHRM Webinar Series organized by the Centre for Global Workforce Strategy at Simon Fraser University (Canada), the Center for International Human Resource Studies at Penn State (USA), Pennsylvania Western University (USA), ESCP Business School, and RIT Croatia (Europe).

Watch previous installments of the IHRM Webinar Series on our YouTube channel.