Cover -- Guest editorial -- How composition and compilation of international experience in groups influences knowledge sharing: a theoretical model -- Global knowledge transfers through inpatriates: performance management, LMX and embeddedness -- Knowledge exchange between expatriates and host...

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the interplay between international experiences and male and female top managers' career paths, taking into consideration gender differences. Furthermore, the research investigates the specific job and personal demands and resources related to the different...

Purpose: This micro-level study unpacks the recruitment and retention of international professionals to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The study highlights the influence of the founders' international experience when applying organisational-level (meso) policies and practices. With...

Purpose: This article explores the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international school teachers, using the findings to theorise agency and elective precarity amongst self-initiated, middling expatriates. Design/methodology/approach: Content analysis of online posts on a teaching...

Purpose: Research on work–life interface in the expatriation context has to date focused on expatriates relocating with a family, and the work–life experiences of single and childless expatriates remain largely unexplored. This is particularly relevant for women, as female expatriates...

Purpose: International human resource management research has only recently started to recognize the many millions of people who engage with the international labor market as low-skilled self-initiated expatriates. In contrast to company-assigned expatriates, they predominantly come from...

Purpose: The paper tries to understand the needs of the international assignees across the different stages of expatriation and how different developers in the professional and non-professional sphere render support and advice through these stages. Design/methodology/approach: In this paper,...