Beyond corporate expatriation - global mobility in the sports, religious, education and non-profit sectors

• Published in: Journal of global mobility 2017-06, Vol.5 (2), p.110-122
• Main Authors: McNulty, Yvonne, Vance, Charles M, Fisher, Kelly
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Bibliometrics; Business education; Careers; Employment; Expatriates; Humanitarianism; International; Missionaries; Multinational corporations; NGOs; Nongovernmental organizations; Nonprofit organizations; Religion; Religious missions; Social responsibility; Sociology; Studies; Volunteers
• ISSN: 2049-8799; 2049-8802
• DOI: 10.1108/JGM-04-2017-0014

[...]there may be valuable insights to be gained from other expatriate communities that can inform ongoing theory development and be usefully applied to the more traditional corporate expatriate community. [...]as our accurate understanding of the workings of IB involves significant private sector – public sector – non-profit interaction and interdependence, there are likely similar mixed-community interactions that should be studied with a broader conceptualization of the career path development and playing out of the expatriate experience; for example, Vance (2005) found foreign experience in humanitarian and missionary work as well as foreign government service as a common preceding experience leading to an eventual corporate expatriate career path. [...]research on expatriation across communities is frequently published in disciplines other than the IHRM, careers, IM and IB fields, which may be limiting management scholars’ access to the ideas, insights and challenges that global mobility in other communities presents, and which can further inform management thinking. [...]due to the growing involvement of NGOs and nonprofits in the global economy, the unique characteristics, needs, and activities of their growing numbers of expatriate volunteers (often comprised of westerners with increasing longevity who want to make a difference in less developed countries) requires greater attention in the expatriate literature.