Career Development International: Volume 28 Issue 4

Guest editorial: Careers of self-initiated expatriates: exploring the impact of context

Maike Andresen, Vesa Suutari, Sara Louise Muhr, Cordula Barzantny, Michael Dickmann

Self-initiated expatriation: a career perspective through a social chronology lens

Hugh Gunz

This is a conceptual paper, intended to link the constructs self-initiated expatriation (SIE) and career. The author suggests that regarding SIE as an episode in a career allows…

The influence of complexity, chance and change on the career crafting strategies of SIEs

Blanca Suarez-Bilbao, Maike Andresen, Marian Crowley-Henry, Edward P. O'Connor

Externalities influence the career trajectories of self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) and their respective career crafting. This study aims to explore the international career…

Towards a dynamic conceptual model for understanding the impact of social isolation on SIE women's adjustment and career development

Riana Schreuders, Andreia Carita, Suzanne van Aswegen

Self-initiated expatriates (SIE) women's career decisions are often based on the establishment of close personal relationships in various spheres of life. This paper aims to…

Transnational sensemaking narratives of highly skilled Canadian immigrants' career change

Dunja Palic, Luciara Nardon, Amrita Hari

The authors answer calls for research on the experiences of international professionals' career transitions by investigating how highly skilled immigrants make sense of their…

Career success of expatriates: the impacts of career capital, expatriate type, career type and career stage

Rodrigo Mello, Vesa Suutari, Michael Dickmann

This paper investigates whether career capital (CC) development abroad, expatriate type, career type and career stage affect expatriates' career success in terms of perceived…

Self-initiated expatriates from emerging markets: career benefits arising from personal initiative

Prashanth N. Bharadwaj, F. Robert Buchanan

The purpose of this paper is to explore the perceptions of self-initiated professional expatriates about their subjective/intangible and objective/tangible successes in both home…

Surviving limbo: critical career capital aspects for entrepreneur immigrants in an extreme context

Gamze Arman

The present study explored the adjustment (i.e. survival vs stay) of a unique group of Turkish entrepreneur immigrants in the United Kingdom, whose initial experiences upon their…

Exploring the impact of national context on adjustment of self-initiated expatriates: the case of German professionals in Britain

Elena Samarsky

The self-initiated nature of migration by self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) may make them more susceptible to the impact of the national context within which their adjustment…