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| Author: | Tahvanainen, M. Welch, D. Worm, V. |
| Title: | Implications of short-term international assignments |
| Journal: | European Management Journal
2005 : DEC, VOL. 23:6, p. 663-673 |
| Index terms: | human resource management employees multinational companies Nordic countries Finland |
| Freeterms: | assignments expatriates |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Multinational companies (MNCs) are increasingly complementing or substituting traditional expatriate assignments (here as: assgs.) with other types of international assgs (or: 'non-standard international assignments') which include short-term, commuter, rotational, contractual and virtual assgs, out of which the most popular one continues to be the short-term assignment. In this paper, data from an exploratory study of 11 large Finnish multinationals is used to explore aspects relating to short-term international assgs. While there are similarities to traditional long-term assgs., the differences pose special human resource (HR) challenges. |
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