WHEN DOES DECISION AUTONOMY INCREASE EXPATRIATE MANAGERS’ ADJUSTMENT? AN EMPIRICAL TEST.
To enhance understanding of expatriate adjustment, we examine the effect of the decision autonomy afforded to expatriate managers on their own adjustment as well as the moderating effect of global integration pressure. We further investigate the mitigating effect of a parent company’s operational experience with a particular foreign subsidiary on this relationship. We examine these issues using survey data from 187 expatriate general managers and 24 corporate headquarter executives working in the global hotel industry. The results of the study support the hypotheses postulated. We discuss implications of these findings.
Takeuchi, Riki1 mnrikit@ust.hk?Shay, Jeffrey P.2 jshay@business.umt.edu?Li, Jiatao3,4 mnjtli@ust.hk
[1]Assistant Professor in the Department of Management of Organizations at the School of Business and Management, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology;[2]Associate Professor in and the Chiar of the Management and Marketing Department at the University of Montana;[3]Professor in and the Head of the Department of Management of Organizations at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology;[4]Director of the Hang Lung Center for Organizational Research at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
