TY - GEN
T1 - Situated Learning and Expatriate Adjustment
T2 - The Case of a Technical Community
AU - Nygaard, Kenneth
AU - Lauring, Jakob
AU - Jonasson, Charlotte
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Adjustment to the new context has been the most central concept examined in expatriate research. Recently, however, the theoretical foundation guiding expatriate adjustment studies has received much critique. In this article we propose that rather than grounding new theoretical thrust on the same underlying theory as used previously, theoretical renewal may be found in applying a new perspective. More specifically, we explore if situated learning theory could provide useful novel insight that have not materialized when basing theoretical notions on social learning theory. We use an ethnographic study of how a group of expatriates in technical positions interact and collaborate with local workers. Our findings indicate that this theoretical lens can reveal the influence of group dynamics in expatriate adjustment and work place learning that would have been ignored using the original perspective.
AB - Adjustment to the new context has been the most central concept examined in expatriate research. Recently, however, the theoretical foundation guiding expatriate adjustment studies has received much critique. In this article we propose that rather than grounding new theoretical thrust on the same underlying theory as used previously, theoretical renewal may be found in applying a new perspective. More specifically, we explore if situated learning theory could provide useful novel insight that have not materialized when basing theoretical notions on social learning theory. We use an ethnographic study of how a group of expatriates in technical positions interact and collaborate with local workers. Our findings indicate that this theoretical lens can reveal the influence of group dynamics in expatriate adjustment and work place learning that would have been ignored using the original perspective.
U2 - 10.5465/AMBPP.2018.14503abstract
DO - 10.5465/AMBPP.2018.14503abstract
M3 - Conference article in Journal
SN - 2151-6561
VL - 2018
JO - Academy of Management Proceedings
JF - Academy of Management Proceedings
IS - 1
ER -