Career Mobility in a Global Era: Advances in Managing Expatriation and Repatriation
回顾了过去四十年职业流动研究的演变，提出用职业生态系统理论框架分析外派与归国，并指出自我发起外派成为新趋势，为学者和管理者提供了研究议程和实践启示。
The surge of interest in expatriation and repatriation within the broader discourse on labor mobility of professionals and high-skilled labor, human capital development, and the theory and practice of people management serves as the backdrop to this paper. We propose that expatriation and repatriation be framed in the context of global careers and embedded in the wider social-economic environment of globalization through the lens of a career ecosystem theory. We chart the evolution of scholarly publications on career mobility over the past four decades and highlight current trends, in particular the emergence of self-initiated expatriation as a pivotal change in the direction of expatriation studies and derived practice. We assess the rigor of empirical findings, weigh theoretical underpinnings, offer a research agenda for future research, and outline managerial implications.