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 lifeworlds, agency and everyday arrangements of the social actors who are putting globalization into practice.
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 lifeworlds, agency and everyday arrangements of the social actors who are putting globalization into practice.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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