Expatriate management: Comparison of MNCs across four parent countries
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Expatriate Management:
Comparison of MNCs Across Four Parent
Countries
Richard B. Peterson ! Nancy K. Napier ! Won Shul-Shim
Executive Summary
This article reports the results of a study of expatriate management and headquar-
ters–subsidiary relations in 29 American, British, German, and Japanese multina-
tionals and a sample of 46 of their foreign subsidiaries based on face-to-face and
telephone interviews with
