Purpose This paper aims to identify what international management challenges professional
service firms (PSFs) face and why they face them. Design/methodology/approach This study …

Purpose Drawing on the “shocks to the system” concept in image theory, a mid-range
theoretical model is developed to illuminate understanding on why cross-cultural experience …

Purpose Research on international professional service firms (PSFs) has grown in recent
years, reflecting the increasing relevance of these firms in the global economy. However, to …

This study examines how the institutional distance between a host country and a home
country influences foreign subsidiary staffing, and how overseas business experience …

This study aims to propose a new comprehensive conceptualization of the manager-level
international experience (MIE) concept. It achieves this by building a framework based on …

CEO incentives have been the subject of great interest for human resource scholars. We
explore the institutional context within which the CEO makes sense of their incentives. Our …

Purpose This paper aims to integrate the perspectives of expatriation and repatriation not as
two unrelated stages but rather as one integrated process. Design/methodology/approach A …

This article presents the concept of expatriates in top management teams (TMTs) by
examining the literature on expatriate managers and TMT members. Based on the …

Although research has investigated the consequences of underemployment in domestic
settings, research on the effects of underemployment among expatriates remains limited and …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine how the effectiveness of delegation as a
management practice is impacted by various factors such as manager cognition, perceived …