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Defining Acculturative Dissonance and Developing a Model of Expatriate Acculturative Stress

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Global Enterprise Management

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Outsourcing, globalization, and technology have all contributed to the increased mobility of individuals and workers all across the world. This movement has resulted in individuals becoming bi- and multicultural through the increased contact and interaction of individuals with differing backgrounds, customs, languages, and expectations. The employment of expatriates to develop subsidiary posts and engage in employment assignments in foreign locations has also seen continued activity. Such movement entails a considerable amount of learning on the part of the expatriate with respect to the host culture into which he or she enters. This learning provides the basis for the acculturation efforts that he or she must undertake in order to increase the likelihood of success for international assignments. In most cases, however, regardless of the steps taken to acculturate to the unfamiliar culture, expatriates experience some degree of emotional disturbance during this transition (Mumford, 1998).

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Lillevik, W. (2015). Defining Acculturative Dissonance and Developing a Model of Expatriate Acculturative Stress. In: Camillo, A.A. (eds) Global Enterprise Management. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137510709_12

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