Abstract
Knowledge about who the willing expatriates are and their corporate abode is essential information for firms struggling with an increasing demand for cosmopolitan executives. North American and European expatriate business managers responded to a mail survey about their expatriate career preferences. It was found that more managers with expatriate career preferences than without are older, have worked longer time abroad, are European, are externally recruited, have previously undertaken foreign assignments, are employed by small parent corporations and by corporations with a large percentage of parent country national expatriates worldwide. There was no difference in managers' expatriate career preferences with regard to period of tenure with parent corporation, gender, marital status, position, parent corporation's percentage of turnover generated abroad, period of international corporate operations, and number of countries of such operations. Implications of these findings are discussed.
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