1st Edition
Expatriate Managers The Paradoxes of Living and Working Abroad
1. Introduction
Anna Spiegel and Ursula Mense-Petermann
Part 1: Embedding the Expatriate Manager
2. Working in Transnational Social Spaces: Expatriate Managers in Transnationally Integrated MNCs
Ursula Mense-Petermann
3. Expatriate Managers as Boundary Spanners in MNCs
Bastian Bredenkötter
4. Cosmopolitans or Parochial Anti-Cosmopolitans? Expatriate Managers’ Resources, Social Positions, and Orientations
Anna Spiegel and Ursula Mense-Petermann
Part 2: Negotiating Difference in the Private Sphere
5. Difference, Spatiality, and Sociability in the Everyday Life of Expatriate Managers
Anna Spiegel
6. Gendered Mobilities, Gendered Cosmopolitanism: Male and Female Expatriate Managers and Their Accompanying Spouses
Anna Spiegel
Part 3: Negotiating Difference in the Professional Sphere
7. Role-taking and Role-making: Expatriates as Creative Organizational Boundary Spanners in MNCs
Bastian Bredenkötter
8. Expatriate Managers as Cosmopolitan Professionals? Dealing with Difference at the Work Place
Anna Spiegel
Part 4: Comparative Perspectives and Conclusion
9. Host Country Effects? How Host Locality Properties Impact Practiced Cosmopolitanism
Ursula Mense-Petermann
10. Conclusion: The Paradoxes of Practiced Elite Cosmopolitanism
Anna Spiegel
Biography
Ursula Mense-Petermann is a Professor at Bielefeld University, Germany.
Anna Spiegel is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Bielefeld University, Germany.
Bastian Bredenkötter is a Doctoral Researcher at Bielefeld University, Germany.
"This book reveals important insights into the complexities and realities of the lives and works of international managers and their families. Based on rigorous academic research, it provides a ‘close-up and personal’ picture of the realities of managing in a global world." –Susanne Tietze, University of Keele
