Career Mobility in a Global Era: Advances in Managing Expatriation and Repatriation
提出用职业生态系统理论框架，将外派与回任置于全球职业和全球化背景中，梳理四十年研究演变，突出自我发起外派趋势，评估实证发现并给出未来研究议程和管理启示。
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.