| “Pilgrims” from the East: Chinese expatriate scholars’ identity strain and embeddedness in the US |
Received:October 14, 2017 Revised:October 14, 2017 |
Key Words: identity strain, job embeddedness in host country, community embeddedness in host country, relationship building, performance, withdrawal, repatriation cognition |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | jingqiu chen* | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | | Lois Tetrick | George Mason University |
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Abstract: |
| This study adopts an identity strain perspective to explain Chinese expatriate scholars’ host-country embeddedness (job and community embeddedness in the host country) and subsequent work outcomes. The results from a 2-wave study design indicate that identity strain is negatively related to both job and community embeddedness in the host country. Identity strain has indirect effects on performance via community embeddedness in the host country and has indirect effects on both withdrawal behaviour and repatriation intention due to mediation of both embeddedness variables. Relationship building in a community moderates the indirect effects of identity strain on withdrawal behaviour and repatriation cognition via community embeddedness in the host country. Relationship building in a job moderates the direct effect of identity strain on performance. The study demonstrates a proactive approach in which relationship building, as a proactive tactic, attenuates the harmful effects of embeddedness (job embeddedness in the host country) on identity strain, which in turn affects consequent work outcomes. Practical implications for management and policy are further discussed. |
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