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Although the increased internationalization of business has brought greater scholarly attention to the issue of adjustment to overseas assignments, comparatively little research activity has been paid to the topic of adjustment back to the home country and home office—repatriation adjustment. In this article we argue that repatriation adjustment is sufficiently different from other forms of work adjustment (e.g., domestic relocation and expatriate assignments) to warrant separate theoretical and empirical investigation. To facilitate this, we propose an initial theoretical framework and set of derived propositions to guide and spark future research on this topic.
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*J. Stewart Black is Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. His research focuses primarily on the topic of international human resource management.
***Hal B. Gregersen is Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. His research focuses generally on international human resource management and specifically on the multiple loyalties of managers during international assignments.
**Mark E. Mendenhall is the J. Burton Frieson Chair of Excellence in Business Leadership in the School of Business Administration at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. His research focuses on international human resource management.
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Black, J., Gregersen, H. & Mendenhall, M. Toward a Theoretical Framework of Repatriation Adjustment. J Int Bus Stud 23, 737–760 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8490286
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8490286