Thriving Abroad

Thriving Abroad

Author: Louise Wiles

Publisher: Practical Inspiration Publishing

Published: 2017-06-14

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1910056790

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Thriving Abroad supports one of life's greatest challenges: international relocation. It guides and inspires employees and their partners who are relocating internationally for work through a three-part framework designed to create personal and professional success abroad.


Success Internationally: The Important Dispositions You'll Need for Thriving Abroad

Success Internationally: The Important Dispositions You'll Need for Thriving Abroad

Author: Steve Carber

Publisher: John Catt

Published: 2015-10-30

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 1398383406

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What are the dispositions of people who work successfully in an international milieu? This guiding question serves to unify the themes of the book, and each chapter hearkens to it. Sub-questions include "how can these dispositions be taught and assessed, both to youth and to adults?" This book helps prepare readers for even greater success in international milieus or expatriate assignments. In discussing positive dispositions such as open-mindedness, adaptability, and flexibility, the authors are implicitly addressing self-improvement, though not in the style of a self-help book. The book is forward-minded about preparing today's students, young professionals, and fellow citizens for a world that does not yet exist but that we know will be increasingly international.


Multinational Corporations and Foreign Direct Investment

Multinational Corporations and Foreign Direct Investment

Author: Stephen D. Cohen

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 0195179366

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Large companies doing businesson a global basis increasingly dominate the production and marketing of the world's goods and services. This new book analyses multinational corporations in an electic, nuanced manner.


Surviving, Thriving and Reviving in Adolescence

Surviving, Thriving and Reviving in Adolescence

Author: Michael Dyson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-07-27

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 981105732X

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This research-based book focuses on the development and evolution of the School for Student Leadership (SSL), an alternate and unique residential school for year-nine students, operating in Victoria, Australia. It traces the journey of the SSL, a state secondary school, from a single campus in 2000, to its current three campuses, with more to come in the future. The book documents the key findings and insights from a university/school research partnership spanning a 16-year period. Central themes running throughout the book include the importance of social and emotional development/competence to support and guide learning in adolescence; the nature and value of adolescent leadership; relationships and community as foci of middle-years education together with what constitutes a modern ‘rite of passage’. The book explains how, in this particular alternate setting, deliberate steps have been taken – and responsively changed over time – to develop knowledge, skills and competencies, which enable the building of meaningful and sustainable relationships and social and emotional competence within the community. Many of the lessons learned in this setting reveal the potential for transference into mainstream educational settings, to enable all year-nine students to receive the same opportunities to grow and develop as those who have attended the SSL.


The Expert Expat

The Expert Expat

Author: Melissa Brayer-Hess

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2011-03-04

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1473644216

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Trusted by thousands of families and individuals, The Expert Expat is essential reading for anyone moving overseas. Personal stories – from the authors’ dozens of years abroad as well as the experience of countless expats worldwide – help prepare people for the exhilarating and daunting task of establishing a life far from home. This new edition includes an important chapter on safety, expert advice on preventing identity theft and responding to terrorist threats and, for the increasing number of people traveling solo, guidance on networking and establishing a home. Now more than ever, The Expert Expat’s practical advice and encouragement eases the challenges and helps create a rewarding experience living abroad.


The Conflicted Superpower

The Conflicted Superpower

Author: Andrew Kennedy

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2018-05-22

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0231546203

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For decades, leadership in technological innovation has sustained U.S. power worldwide. Today, however, processes that undergird innovation increasingly transcend national borders. Cross-border flows of brainpower have reached unprecedented heights, while multinationals invest more and more in high-tech facilities abroad. In this new world, U.S. technological leadership increasingly involves collaboration with other countries. China and India have emerged as particularly prominent partners, most notably as suppliers of intellectual talent to the United States. In The Conflicted Superpower, Andrew Kennedy explores how the world’s most powerful country approaches its growing collaboration with these two rising powers. Whereas China and India have embraced global innovation, policy in the United States is conflicted. Kennedy explains why, through in-depth case studies of U.S. policies toward skilled immigration, foreign students, and offshoring. These make clear that U.S. policy is more erratic than strategic, the outcome of domestic battles between competing interests. Pressing for openness is the “high-tech community”—the technology firms and research universities that embody U.S. technological leadership. Yet these pro-globalization forces can face resistance from a range of other interests, including labor and anti-immigration groups, and the nature of this resistance powerfully shapes just how open national policy is. Kennedy concludes by asking whether U.S. policies are accelerating or slowing American decline, and considering the prospects for U.S. policy making in years to come.


A Great Move

A Great Move

Author: Katia Vlachos

Publisher: Lid Publishing

Published: 2018-06-28

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9781911498605

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In 2017, there were 57 million expatriates worldwide. While the number of corporate expat assignments is growing steadily, these assignments are expensive and fail all too often for avoidable reasons. Many expats move with minimal preparation, have unrealistic expectations and are left with insufficient resources to deal with the practical and emotional implications of a move. The result: failed moves, stressed families and damaged careers. Author Katia Vlachos strongly believes that these professional and personal expat assignment failures are avoidable -- with careful forethought and planning. In A Great Move, Vlachos provides a systematic, step-by-step guide for deciding, planning and carrying out any international move.