Host country employees' ethnic identity confirmation: evidence from interactions with ethnically similar expatriates
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Fan, S. and Harzing, A. 2017. Host country employees' ethnic identity confirmation: evidence from interactions with ethnically similar expatriates. Journal of World Business. 52 (5), pp. 640-652. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2017.05.001
Type | Article |
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Title | Host country employees' ethnic identity confirmation: evidence from interactions with ethnically similar expatriates |
Authors | Fan, S. and Harzing, A. |
Abstract | Employing expatriates who share an ethnicity with host country employees (HCEs) is a widespread expatriate selection strategy. However, little research has compared how expatriates and HCEs perceive this shared ethnicity. Drawing upon an identity perspective, we propose HCEs’ ethnic identity confirmation, the level of agreement between how an HCE views the importance of his/her own ethnic identity and how expatriates view the importance of the HCE’s ethnic identity, affects HCEs’ attitudes towards ethnically similar expatriates. Results of two experiments show that HCEs’ ethnic identity confirmation is related to HCEs’ perception of expatriates’ trustworthiness and knowledge-sharing intention. |
Research Group | International and Cross-cultural Management group |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Journal | Journal of World Business |
ISSN | 1090-9516 |
Electronic | 1878-5573 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 10 May 2017 |
01 Sep 2017 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 05 May 2017 |
Accepted | 02 May 2017 |
Submitted | 12 Apr 2016 |
Output status | Published |
Publisher's version | License |
Accepted author manuscript | License |
Copyright Statement | Copyright: © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY-NC-ND/4.0/). |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2017.05.001 |
Language | English |
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