Expatriates' Adjustment Challenges: Role of Host-country Nationals

Silvia Dimitrova ()
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Silvia Dimitrova: University of Economics - Varna, Varna, Bulgaria

Izvestia Journal of the Union of Scientists - Varna. Economic Sciences Series, 2022, vol. 11, issue 2, 193-204

Abstract: The internationalization of the economy, culture and societies leads to an increasing number of international assignments. In this process, host country nationals are important for successful adjustment and prevention of expatriates' failures. The paper presents the prevalent understandings of adjustment and adaptation of expatriates, as consisted of general, social and work adjustment. Significance and influence of HCNs' specific cultural determinants such as attitude towards age, women, country of origin, foreignism in the society of the foreign countries are discussed. The role of the relevant HCNs in the process of adjustment is defined by the social and informational support it provides to the expatriates. At the end, guidelines for coping with the adaptation challenges are proposed.

Keywords: international business; expatriates; adjustment; host country nationals support; cultural distance; cultural characteristics; adjustment dimensions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F00 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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