While social support is recognized as an important factor for successful international
assignment, there is, to date, no overview of the supportive agents during the expatriation
process and their influence on different criteria of expatriate success. We culminate findings
of 84 independent studies that examined the social support provided by community-, work-,
and family-domain agents in relation to four criteria of expatriate success: adjustment,
commitment, performance, and retention. We explore the role of social support proximity: the …