Few world cities can claim to have had as much of an impact on American literature as the Moroccan city of Tangier. The writers who resided in or passed through the city in the 1950s and the works of literature produced there have re-charted the course of American letters. Tangi…
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This dissertation relaxes the traditional assumption used in consumer theory, which takes preferences as fixed. I propose a model of immigrants' consumption behavior based on habit formation, incorporating past experiences, other consumers' consumption patterns, availability of …
The aim of this thesis is to identify the key roles of expatriates in a major Japanese MNE and factors influencing formation of their roles. It also examines to what extent expatriates have discretion in forming their roles. The thesis uses empirical data from 109 interviews and…
This dissertation investigated how constructions of a group’s history affect members’ attitudes toward and relationships with outgroup members. Incorporating Halbwach’s (1950) concept of collective memory—defined as a shared sense of history—to Social Identity Theory (Tajfel & T…
Using a qualitative methodology, I conducted this study to identify the barriers to women's post-secondary education in Bangladesh and to investigate the possible strategies to remove those barriers, from the perspectives of three Bangladeshi women who received post-secondary ed…
According to the International Organization for Migration, there are approximately 214 million international migrants. These people are asylum seekers, business people, refugees, sojourners, students, and volunteers, who naturally influence the ecosystem of people, communities, …
Growing globalization has increased employment opportunities for Americans to work abroad, but employee failure to complete overseas assignments (turnover) diminishes the potential competitive advantage of U.S. companies with international offices. The purpose of this quantitati…
This study focuses on Western expatriates working in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and their experiences and perceptions of their cross-cultural adjustment. Eight Western expatriates working and living in Saudi Arabia received invitations to be interviewed in an effort to explore …
Non-Arab global leaders face many cultural challenges when doing business in Arab markets. One such challenge is how to work with wasta, which is translated as networking and favoritism. The purpose of this study was to identify the relationships between wasta and a non-Arab man…