Dear Colleagues,
It is my pleasure to announce that Palgrave MacMillan
just released a new book titled “Talent Management of Self-Initiated
Expatriates: A Neglected Source of Global Talent” and edited By Vlad Vaiman and
Arno Haslberger.
Preamble:
Qualified people are scarce in global business.
Company-assigned expatriates used to provide needed talent, but this is no
longer enough. Self-initiated expatriates, a new and diverse breed of
internationally mobile talent, are filling the gap. Talent Management of
Self-initiated Expatriates is a collection of research papers which explores
who these self-initiated expatriates are and what experiences they have. It
answers questions such as: how or when does one become a self-initiated
expatriate (SIE)? What are SIEs' motivations and characteristics? What types or
sub-types of SIEs are there? What challenges are they likely to face? How do
their careers and social capital develop? What is the impact of international
experience on their life overall? What are the specific experiences of
sub-groups such as academics or female SIEs? As traditional talent management
can no longer fulfil the needs of globally operating organisations,
self-initiated expatriates have become an ever more important, albeit
neglected, source of the global talent flow.
Chapters and Contributors:
1. Self-initiated Expatriates: A Neglected Source of the
Global Talent Flow; Arno Haslberger and Vlad Vaiman
2. Global Self-initiated Corporate Careerists: What
Drives Them, and Implications for HRM; Yehuda Baruch and Yochanan Altman
3. Are Self-Initiated Expatriates Born or Made? Exploring
the Relationship between SIE Orientation and Individual ROI; Yvonne McNulty
4. The Organizational Self-Initiated Expatriate: A Case
Study of a Professional Services Firm; Julia Richardson, Steve McKenna and
Nadia de Gama
5. Could International Volunteers be Considered Ethical
Consumers? A Cross-discipline Approach to Understanding Motivations of
Self-initiated Expatriates; Eliane Karsaklian and Anthony Fee
6. Female Self-initiated Expatriates in the United Arab
Emirates: An Unexpected Trifecta; Snejina Michailova and Edelweiss Harrison
7. Self-initiated Expatriate Adjustment: A Neglected
Terrain; Anthony McDonnell and Hugh Scullion
8. The Careers of Self-initiated Expatriates; Vesa
Suutari, Chris Brewster and Christelle Tornikoski
9. Self-initiated Expatriate Academics: Personal
Characteristics and Work Outcomes; Jan Selmer and Jakob Lauring
10. Self-Initiated Expatriate Women's Careers –
Reflections, Experiences and Choices; Riana Van Der Bergh and Yvonne Du Plessis
11. Self-initiated and Assigned Expatriates: Talent
Management and Career Considerations; Noeleen Doherty and Michael Dickmann
12. Social Capital of Traditional and Self-initiated
Expatriates; Kristiina Makela and Vesa Suutari
13. Work-Life Interface of Self-Initiated Expatriates:
Conflicts and Enrichment; Liisa Makela and Vesa Suutari
