TY - JOUR
T1 - Expatriation willingness in Asia
T2 - The importance of host-country characteristics and employees' role commitments
AU - Kim, Jisun
AU - Froese, Fabian Jintae
PY - 2012/9
Y1 - 2012/9
N2 - Expatriation willingness is an important predictor for expatriate success. This study examines the direct and moderating effects of host-country characteristics (economic level and language) and employee's role commitments (work and family) on expatriation willingness. The survey results of 151 married Korean employees show that host-country characteristics and occupational role commitment have direct effects on employees' expatriation willingness and that host-country economic level interacts with occupational role commitment. However, unlike prior research that is based in Western countries, we find that marital role commitment has no effect. We also made another noteworthy finding: employees who have children are particularly eager to go abroad. The interpretations of these findings are provided in light of the extant literature.
AB - Expatriation willingness is an important predictor for expatriate success. This study examines the direct and moderating effects of host-country characteristics (economic level and language) and employee's role commitments (work and family) on expatriation willingness. The survey results of 151 married Korean employees show that host-country characteristics and occupational role commitment have direct effects on employees' expatriation willingness and that host-country economic level interacts with occupational role commitment. However, unlike prior research that is based in Western countries, we find that marital role commitment has no effect. We also made another noteworthy finding: employees who have children are particularly eager to go abroad. The interpretations of these findings are provided in light of the extant literature.
KW - Korea
KW - expatriation willingness
KW - host-country characteristics
KW - role commitment
KW - role-identity salience theory
KW - work-family conflict
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U2 - 10.1080/09585192.2011.637068
DO - 10.1080/09585192.2011.637068
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84863889487
SN - 0958-5192
VL - 23
SP - 3414
EP - 3433
JO - International Journal of Human Resource Management
JF - International Journal of Human Resource Management
IS - 16
ER -