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| Author: | Stroppa, C. Spiess, E. |
| Title: | Expatriates social networks: The role of company size |
| Journal: | International journal of human resource management
2010 : OCT-DEC, VOL. 21:13-15 p. 2306-2322 |
| Index terms: | expatriate managers networks cross-cultural studies |
| Freeterms: | cross-cultural adjustment network partners social support expatriates |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The paper expands and tests Caligiuri and Lazarova's model(2002) for the effect of support provided by network partners, such as supervisors, co-workers, spouses and friends on received socio-emotional and instrumental support. The model is expanded by investigating the relationship in connection with the size of the company. A study of 90 expatriates from both SMEs and large firms was conducted to examine this issue. The findings indicate that expatriates who got more socio-emotional support from coworkers also received more instrumental support. Furthermore, the size of the company affected the relationship between the network partners and and instrumental and socio-emotional support. |
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