The Influence of Social Capital on Expatriates’ Adjustment: The Moderating Effects of Work-Role Demand and Work-Family Conflict
- DOI
- 10.2991/aebmr.k.210507.012How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Social capital, cross-cultural adjustment, work-role demand, work-family conflict
- Abstract
Research related to the predictors of expatriate’s adjustment and performance has been conducted extensively, nevertheless, expatriation remains a challenging job. Previous studies illustrated that approximately from 30% to 50% of expatriates are ineffective, or in other word, they are marginally effective. Among others, the issue of social capital, work-role demand, and work-family conflict are three of the most critical factors for the adjustment and performance of expatriation. This study also adopts the Takeuchi’s stakeholder approach to identify the moderating role of work-role demand and work-family conflict that moderate the influence of social capital on cross-cultural adjustment. With a questionnaire survey approach, the data was obtained from 244 expatriates among Taiwanese multinational enterprises. The results of this study showed that (1) expatriate’s social capital has a significant effect on the expatriates’ cross-cultural adjustment; (2) work-role demand and work–family conflict serves as two moderating variables that will inhibit the influence of expatriates’ social capital on cross-cultural adjustment. The results of this study are very beneficial to human resource manager in selecting, recruiting, evaluating, and managing their expatriates in the overseas marketplaces. These findings could also be very useful for academicians to develop further about theoretical foundation in expatriate management.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Li-Yueh Lee AU - Phuoc-Thien Nguyen AU - Minh-Quan Vu PY - 2021 DA - 2021/05/09 TI - The Influence of Social Capital on Expatriates’ Adjustment: The Moderating Effects of Work-Role Demand and Work-Family Conflict BT - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Entrepreneurship and Business Management (ICEBM 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 76 EP - 83 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.210507.012 DO - 10.2991/aebmr.k.210507.012 ID - Lee2021 ER -