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OverviewSince the 1990s, economic and cultural globalization has propelled the transnational mobility of managers and fueled cross-border careers. Some scholars have argued for the emergence of a new global business elite with cosmopolitan mind-sets and homogeneous lifestyles, while others have highlighted their disconnection from the local surroundings and their everyday life within national expatriate ‘bubbles’. Thus, the question of whether today’s mobile professionals can be described as interculturally open and competent cosmopolitans, or as pronounced anti-cosmopolitans, is still unanswered. Expatriate Managers and the Paradoxes of Working and Living Abroad considers a core protagonist of economic globalization and the management of MNCs through the lens of a practice-based theoretical approach whilst seeking to address this question by building on intensive ethnographic case studies of expatriate managers, most of them high-ranking executives, from two comparative different home countries, the US and Germany. These managers, together with their families, have been assigned to China, Germany, or the US to perform demanding coordination tasks within their multinational corporations (MNCs). Based on detailed accounts of expatriate managers’ experiences and everyday practices, the book reveals the multiple and sometimes paradoxical ways in which they deal with cultural differences as they build up new forms of working, belonging and dwelling. The findings suggest that the newly emerging mind-sets and lifestyles of expatriate managers transcend the polarized images of mobile elites as either cosmopolitan ‘global managers’ or parochial anti-cosmopolitans. Expatriate Managers and the Paradoxes of Working and Living Abroad examines the global elite from an everyday perspective, showing that understanding the dynamics of a global economy requires probing into the lifeworld’s agency and everyday arrangements of the social actors who are puttin Full Product DetailsAuthor: Anna Spiegel , Ursula Mense-Petermann , Bastian BredenkötterPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.362kg ISBN: 9780367876739ISBN 10: 0367876736 Pages: 242 Publication Date: 05 December 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Introduction Anna Spiegel and Ursula Mense-Petermann Part 1: Embedding the Expatriate Manager 2. Working in Transnational Social Spaces: Expatriate Managers in Transnationally Integrated MNCs Ursula Mense-Petermann 3. Expatriate Managers as Boundary Spanners in MNCs Bastian Bredenkötter 4. Cosmopolitans or Parochial Anti-Cosmopolitans? Expatriate Managers’ Resources, Social Positions, and Orientations Anna Spiegel and Ursula Mense-Petermann Part 2: Negotiating Difference in the Private Sphere 5. Difference, Spatiality, and Sociability in the Everyday Life of Expatriate Managers Anna Spiegel 6. Gendered Mobilities, Gendered Cosmopolitanism: Male and Female Expatriate Managers and Their Accompanying Spouses Anna Spiegel Part 3: Negotiating Difference in the Professional Sphere 7. Role-taking and Role-making: Expatriates as Creative Organizational Boundary Spanners in MNCs Bastian Bredenkötter 8. Expatriate Managers as Cosmopolitan Professionals? Dealing with Difference at the Work Place Anna Spiegel Part 4: Comparative Perspectives and Conclusion 9. Host Country Effects? How Host Locality Properties Impact Practiced Cosmopolitanism Ursula Mense-Petermann 10. Conclusion: The Paradoxes of Practiced Elite Cosmopolitanism Anna SpiegelReviews"""This book reveals important insights into the complexities and realities of the lives and works of international managers and their families. Based on rigorous academic research, it provides a ‘close-up and personal’ picture of the realities of managing in a global world."" –Susanne Tietze, University of Keele" This book reveals important insights into the complexities and realities of the lives and works of international managers and their families. Based on rigorous academic research, it provides a 'close-up and personal' picture of the realities of managing in a global world. -Susanne Tietze, University of Keele Author InformationUrsula Mense-Petermann is a Professor at Bielefeld University, Germany. Anna Spiegel is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Bielefeld University, Germany. Bastian Bredenkötter is a Doctoral Researcher at Bielefeld University, Germany. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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