Expatriate Managers: The Paradoxes of Living and Working Abroad

ISBN-13: 9780367876739 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 242 str.

Anna Spiegel; Ursula Mense-Petermann; Bastian Bredenkotter

Opis

Expatriate Managers and the Paradoxes of Working and Living Abroad examines the global elite from an everyday perspective, showing that understanding the dynamics of a global economy requires probing into the lifeworlds, agency and everyday arrangements of the social actors who are putting globalization into practice.

Recenzje

"This book reveals important insights into the complexities and realities of the lives and works of international managers and their families. Based on rigorous academic research, it provides a ‘close-up and personal’ picture of the realities of managing in a global world." –Susanne Tietze, University of Keele

Spis treści

 

1. Introduction

Anna Spiegel and Ursula Mense-Petermann

Part 1: Embedding the Expatriate Manager

2. Working in Transnational Social Spaces: Expatriate Managers in Transnationally Integrated MNCs

Ursula Mense-Petermann

3. Expatriate Managers as Boundary Spanners in MNCs

Bastian Bredenkötter

4. Cosmopolitans or Parochial Anti-Cosmopolitans? Expatriate Managers’ Resources, Social Positions, and Orientations

Anna Spiegel and Ursula Mense-Petermann

Part 2: Negotiating Difference in the Private Sphere

5. Difference, Spatiality, and Sociability in the Everyday Life of Expatriate Managers

Anna Spiegel

6. Gendered Mobilities, Gendered Cosmopolitanism: Male and Female Expatriate Managers and Their Accompanying Spouses

Anna Spiegel

Part 3: Negotiating Difference in the Professional Sphere

7. Role-taking and Role-making: Expatriates as Creative Organizational Boundary Spanners in MNCs

Bastian Bredenkötter

8. Expatriate Managers as Cosmopolitan Professionals? Dealing with Difference at the Work Place

Anna Spiegel

Part 4: Comparative Perspectives and Conclusion

9. Host Country Effects? How Host Locality Properties Impact Practiced Cosmopolitanism

Ursula Mense-Petermann

10. Conclusion: The Paradoxes of Practiced Elite Cosmopolitanism

Anna Spiegel

O autorze

Ursula Mense-Petermann is a Professor at Bielefeld University, Germany.

Anna Spiegel is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Bielefeld University, Germany.

Bastian Bredenkötter is a Doctoral Researcher at Bielefeld University, Germany.