Palgrave Handbook of Global Migration in International Business

Audra I. Mockaitis is Professor (Chair) of International Business at Maynooth University School of Business, Ireland. She has held tenured positions in Australia (Monash) and New Zealand (Victoria University of Wellington). Her research interests generally center on cross-cultural management, cultural values, migration, and identity. Her work has been published in journals such as Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of World Business, Journal of Business Ethics, Management International Review, International Business Review, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and others, and has received multiple best paper and best reviewer awards. This is Mockaitis’ second book on migration.

• 1. Introduction.- Section 1: Theme: Migration landscapes and the consequences of the pandemic for migrants and international business.-2. The pandemic, vulnerable migrants and international business: A vicious cycle.- 3. Unpacking the complexities of migrant work through the pandemic: Zooming in on the agricultural industry in New England. 4. - Expatriates within the pandemic: Two sides of the same coin.- 5. - Organizational factors influencing the professional well-being of self-initiated expatriates during the COVID-19 pandemic. 6. -The salience of cultural differences due to the COVID-19 pandemic.- 7. Social contagion in emigration decisions: Evidence from South Africa.- Section 2: Migrants as an international business resource.- 8. Leveraging transnational social capital: shared perspectives in migration and global mobility.- 9. Female diasporans and diaspora networks: A neglected resource for business?.- 10. Careercapital of self-initiated expatriates (skilled migrants).- 11 - International career success factors across multi-levels: Focusing on best practice.- 12. -The critical link between organizational identification and organization-based self-esteem for migrant innovativeness.- 13. Online support and inclusion of international workers.- 14. Motility of international IT workers : beyond the myth of digital nomads.- 15. Migrant returns to organisations in Central and Eastern Europe: Challenges with skill transfers.- Section 3. Migrants’ Language and Culture: Implications for International Business.- 16. The pervasive influence of migrants’ language skills on SME internationalization: A literature review.- 17.  Leveraging from the cultural mix: A study of Finnish migrant entrepreneurs in Florida.- 18. Dissecting generations of migrant identities within a diaspora.- 19. Value differences between Lithuanian emigrants in the main destination countries and not migrated Lithuanians.- 20. Conclusion.