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dc.contributor.authorGuttormsen, David S. A.
dc.contributor.authorFrancesco, Anne Marie
dc.contributor.authorChapman, Malcolm K.
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-02T11:26:49Z
dc.date.available2018-05-02T11:26:49Z
dc.date.created2018-03-29T03:24:19Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationScandinavian Journal of Management, 2018, 34(2), 117-128nb_NO
dc.identifier.issn0956-5221
dc.identifier.issn1873-3387
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2496725
dc.description.abstractThis article advances the understanding of expatriate failure, which remains a contested social phenomenon in international work life as well as scholarly research. The study challenges the definition of expatriate failure and its inherent biases, i.e., the epistemological primacy of the firm level and the failure/success binary. We argue that this qualitative study of 51 Scandinavian expatriates in Hong Kong can contribute to advancing theory on the expatriate failure concept by asking individual expatriates what constitutes failure to them. By applying social constructionist and social anthropological ideas to the expatriate failure concept debate, we develop the internationality thesis which demonstrates a discrepancy between the expatriates’ perceptions of successful international assignments and the actual nature of their lived lives; many expatriates desire to enrich their lives through experiencing an international/intercultural and adventurous lifestyle, but, in fact, living lives with limited intercultural exposure and interaction. We conclude by proposing a reconceptualisation of expatriate failure in terms of offering both a new definition and approach to researching expatriate failure in which time/duration, context, and geographical location need to be taken into account. We believe the new approach can overcome some of the empirical unsoundness of mainstream definitions.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherElseviernb_NO
dc.titleRevisiting the Expatriate Failure Concept: A Qualitative Study of Scandinavian Expatriates in Hong Kongnb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.typePeer reviewednb_NO
dc.description.versionacceptedVersionnb_NO
dc.source.journalScandinavian Journal of Managementnb_NO
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.scaman.2018.03.005
dc.identifier.cristin1576171
dc.description.localcode1, Forfatterversjonnb_NO
cristin.unitcode158,9,0,0
cristin.unitnameInstitutt for kommunikasjon og kultur
cristin.ispublishedfalse
cristin.fulltextpostprint
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