Self-initiated expatriation: changing the ontological and methodological box

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Self-initiated expatriation: changing the ontological and methodological box

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer an ontological and methodological alternative to the functionalist paradigm which currently dominates study of the self-initiated expatriate (SIE). It argues conceptually, and with a practical example, that actor-network theory (ANT) offers an alternat...

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Main Authors:	McKenna, Stephen, Richardson, Julia
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	2016
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19435

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