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portada Expatriate Managers: The Paradoxes of Living and Working Abroad (in English)
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Year
2017
Language
English
Pages
242
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
23.1 x 15.5 x 2.0 cm
Weight
0.50 kg.
ISBN13
9781138190214
Edition No.
1

Expatriate Managers: The Paradoxes of Living and Working Abroad (in English)

Ursula Mense-Petermann (Author) · Anna Spiegel (Author) · Bastian Bredenkötter (Author) · Routledge · Hardcover

Expatriate Managers: The Paradoxes of Living and Working Abroad (in English) - Spiegel, Anna ; Mense-Petermann, Ursula ; Bredenkötter, Bastian

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Synopsis "Expatriate Managers: The Paradoxes of Living and Working Abroad (in English)"

Since the 1990s, economic and cultural globalization has propelled the transnational mobility of managers and fueled cross-border careers. Some scholars have argued for the emergence of a new global business elite with cosmopolitan mind-sets and homogeneous lifestyles, while others have highlighted their disconnection from the local surroundings and their everyday life within national expatriate 'bubbles'. Thus, the question of whether today's mobile professionals can be described as interculturally open and competent cosmopolitans, or as pronounced anti-cosmopolitans, is still unanswered. Expatriate Managers and the Paradoxes of Working and Living Abroad considers a core protagonist of economic globalization and the management of MNCs through the lens of a practice-based theoretical approach whilst seeking to address this question by building on intensive ethnographic case studies of expatriate managers, most of them high-ranking executives, from two comparative different home countries, the US and Germany. These managers, together with their families, have been assigned to China, Germany, or the US to perform demanding coordination tasks within their multinational corporations (MNCs). Based on detailed accounts of expatriate managers' experiences and everyday practices, the book reveals the multiple and sometimes paradoxical ways in which they deal with cultural differences as they build up new forms of working, belonging and dwelling.The findings suggest that the newly emerging mind-sets and lifestyles of expatriate managers transcend the polarized images of mobile elites as either cosmopolitan 'global managers' or parochial anti-cosmopolitans. 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 lifeworld's agency and everyday arrangements of the social actors who are putting globalization into practice.

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