Expatriate Adjustment

Ilaria Boncori
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Ilaria Boncori: University of Essex

Chapter 7 in Expatriates in China, 2013, pp 103-151 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract China, especially the pre-millennium China and up to 2005, was not only a whole different world from Italy, but another galaxy altogether in terms of daily living, it seemed so distant. Parker and McEvoy (1993) found an inverse relationship exists between cultural toughness (which is defined as the difference between the expatriate’s home and host cultures) and level of adjustment, so that very distant cultures may require higher levels of adjustment.

Keywords: Social Capital; Host Country; Chinese Woman; Chinese People; Cultural Distance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137293473_7

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