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The experience of expatriate selection and assignment has been a mixed success for multinational firms. Several selection strategies have been used, but failure situations in individual assignment cases are known to be in nearly every multinational firm. New research has indicated that the problem of insuring success for an expatriate is quite different from the problem of avoiding failure. A different set of factors is critical to each of these two problems. When this distinction is made, the variables related to the expatriate selection and assignment problem are considerably more ordered and operable.
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*Dr. Hays is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Business Administration, Tulane University, New Orleans. His publications include several articles relating to behavioral problems faced by the multinational firm and co-authorship of International Business: An Introduction to the World of the Multinational Firm. Prentice-Hall. 1972.
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Hays, R. Expatriate Selection: Insuring Success and Avoiding Failure. J Int Bus Stud 5, 25–37 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8490810
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8490810