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Opportunity and opportunism: The expatriation practices of Indian information technology multinational corporations
journal contribution
posted on 2017-08-22, 14:47 authored by Dhara Shah, Bob Russell, Adrian WilkinsonAlthough effective International Human Resource Management during an international assignment constitutes a significant factor in ensuring success of an expatriate assignment, little research has studied the expatriation practices that are associated with the onsite-offshore business model that has come to be identified with global outsourcing. The purpose of this paper is to understand the expatriation practices of an Emerging Market Multinational Corporation (EMNC), Indian Information Technology (IT) MNC, by examining the experiences of Indian IT workers, sent to work on international client projects in a western country. We used live semi-structured interviews with 47 Indian IT expatriates from Indian IT MNCs working at client sites in Australia. We find that there is inadequate attention paid to expatriation both prior to emigration and while workers are overseas and employed at client sites. Such HR shortcomings may be inherent in the onsite-offshore model that is an important feature of Indian IT business. The implications of these findings are discussed in the paper.
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School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Published in
Journal of International ManagementVolume
23Issue
2Pages
139 - 150Citation
SHAH, D., RUSSELL, B. and WILKINSON, A., 2017. Opportunity and opportunism: The expatriation practices of Indian information technology multinational corporations. Journal of International Management, 23(2), pp. 139-150.Publisher
© ElsevierVersion
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2016-11-02Publication date
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This paper was published in the journal Journal of International Management and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intman.2016.11.001.ISSN
1075-4253Publisher version
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