Sökning: "expatriate"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade ordet expatriate.

  1. 1. Language as a Leading Light to Business Cultural Insight : A Study on Expatriates' Intercultural Communication in Central and Eastern Europe

    Författare :Kjell Ljungbo; Björn Bjerke; Susanne Tietze; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Language; multilingualism; culture; intercultural communication; business; expatriate; Central and Eastern Europe; cultural significance structure; business flower; hermeneutics; ideal type; export; foreign language skills; language competence; Sweden; Business studies; Företagsekonomi; företagsekonomi; Business Administration;

    Sammanfattning : Language competence is decisively important in international business and could increase efficacy, efficiency, sales and profits. Language is an underresearched area in business studies though language constitutes management and the managers building structures, processes, cultures and personalities being the most vital working tool to get things done and make them understandable. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Tales of transformation: Expatriate encounters with local contexts : A postcolonial reading

    Författare :Anna Wettermark; Christian Maravelias; Hervé Corvellec; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Expatriates; identity reconstruction; postcolonialism; international management; företagsekonomi; Business Administration;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis examines how and in what sense expatriates are changed and transformed by their intercultural experiences. In doing so it seeks to complement more efficiency-oriented expatriation studies by outlining a relational and contextual view inspired by postcolonialism. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Expatriate entrepreneurship : the role of accelerators in network formation and resource acquisition

    Författare :Nedim Efendic; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : Immigrant entrepreneurship is an increasingly important socio-economic phenomenon. To date, immigrant entrepreneurship research has focused on immigrants that decide to engage in self-employment after having established themselves in the host country. LÄS MER

  5. 4. The Modern Journey to the West : Exploring Key Factors Influencing Reverse Knowledge Transfer in Emerging-market Multinationals

    Författare :Lingshuang Kong; Francesco Ciabuschi; Ulf Holm; Grazia Santangelo; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Emerging-market multinational corporations; reverse knowledge transfer political relationships; expatriate managers; headquarters-subsidiary relationship.; Business Studies; Företagsekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : As latecomers to the world economy, emerging-market multinational corporations (EMNCs) often use international expansion as a ‘springboard’ for seeking and accessing advanced knowledge from overseas, particularly from advanced markets, with the goal of offsetting their competitive weaknesses and catching up with their Western counterparts. This behavior is conceptualized as the springboard perspective formulated by Luo and Tung (2007). LÄS MER

  7. 5. Essays on Gender, Development and Political Economy

    Författare :Divya Dev; Torsten Persson; Ingvild Almås; Sascha Becker; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; reservation in India; missionary activity; expatriate voter participation; Chilean presidential election; Tanzanian public sector; representation of women; female labour-force participation; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : The Long-Run Impact of Protestant Missionary Activity on Female Labour-Force ParticipationResearch has shown that missionary activity, in general, and Protestant missionary activity, in particular, has had a long-lasting positive effect on literacy, education and democratic values. In this chapter, I analyse the differential effect of early 20th century Protestant and Catholic missionary activity in three former British colonies - Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda - on female labour-force participation with a particular focus on formal-sector employment. LÄS MER