Does international work experience pay off? : the relationship between international work experience, employability and career success : a 30-country, multi-industry study

Andresen, Maike (author), Lazarova, Mila (author), Apospori, Eleni (author), Cotton, Richard (author), Bosak, Janine (author), Dickmann, Michael (author), Kaše, Robert (author), Smale, Adam (author)

Drawing on human capital theory, our study examines the relationship between international work experience and individuals' career success in terms of promotions and subjective financial success. We propose that these relationships are mediated by external employability and hypothesise a moderating role of national-level economic freedom. Using data from 19,421 respondents, residing in 30 countries and working in different occupational groups (managers, professionals, clerical and blue-collar workers), our results suggest that international work experience is positively related to promotions and subjective financial success across our study's different national contexts. These positive relationships were mediated by individuals' perceived external employability. Some support for the moderation of the relationship between international work experience and employability through economic freedom was only found when we differentiate between different types of international work experience. The findings enhance our understanding of the association between international work experience and career success from a human capital perspective.

• Language: English
• Keywords: management, human capital, personnel, knowledge transfer, innovativeness, stimulation, career success, economic freedom, employability, international work experience
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication status: In print
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-134921
• UDC: 331.108
• ISSN on article: 0954-5395
• DOI: 10.1111/1748-8583.12423
• COBISS.SI-ID: 89013763
• Publication date in RUL: 11.02.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Human resource management journal
• Shortened title: Hum. resour. manag, J.
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• ISSN: 0954-5395
• COBISS.SI-ID: 1006613

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 11.12.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: management, človeški kapital, kadri, prenos znanja, inovativnost, stimulacija