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The chapter focuses on the main issues related to international assignment implementation and management faced by diverse emerging market firms together with specific managerial approaches to addressing them at different stages of firm growth and internationalisation and determinants thereof. It presents the results from pilot interviews conducted with two sole proprietors (i.e. micro firms), a representative of a business accelerator, and representatives of two startups, one high-tech small and medium-sized enterprise, two large, mature emerging market multinationals (one manufacturing and one service firm), and a developed market subsidiary operating in a small emerging market (i.e. Slovenia). The findings show that emerging market firms face the following challenges when it comes to international staffing: (1) the lack of experience in international employee mobility at the firm and individual levels that results in an experimental approach to assignment implementation and management, (2) a limited pool of assignment experienced, willing, or ready employees that necessitates an individualised, narrative approach to managing expatriation, and (3) the lack of resources for (strate

Author

Iris Koleša

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030873967

Subjects

Business