v. Expatriat Staffing Practices
Companies operating in the international business environment are faced with a great variety of cultural and institutional variations which make managing in a multinational context particularly complex (Doz & Prahalad, 1986). Managers of multinational corporations (MNCs) are increasingly realizing the importance of HR practices in ensuring the profitability and viability of their business operations, and global staffing is increasingly seen as a primary HR practice used by MNCs to control and coordinate their spatially dispersed global operations (Dowling & Welch, 2004). Indeed global staffing has emerged as a critical issue in international management for several reasons.