Publication: Global integration without expatriates
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1997
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Blackwell Publishing
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Abstract
A paper provides a case study of a company that, while it has a fully international operation, makes no use at all of expatriates. The global activities of the giant retail clothing company Zara, and the way in which it adapts to cultural differences, are outlined. By exploring why the company does not use expatriates, and how it develops organizational learning without them, the example provides a challenge to many of the assumptions on which international staffing are based
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Case studies, Retailing industry, Multinational corporations, Employment policies, Expatriate employees, Corporate planning, Multiculturalism & pluralism
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Human Resource Management Journal, 1997, v. 7, n. 3, pp. 89-100