ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on cross-cultural training, expatriate adjustment and the expatriate family. As a preliminary step the expatriate academics at the centre of this study are defined as professors and non-professorial staff, the latter only as far as part of the research and teaching profession. The relevance of the literature on cross-cultural training and support systems appears to be mediated by two important differences between expatriate academics and expatriate managers. First, unlike many, expatriate managers, academics are not sent but elect to go overseas. Second, other than those who are taking sabbatical positions, there is usually no concept of a home and host organization for expatriate academics, whereas expatriate managers are frequently sent overseas with the expectation that they will return to the home organization. This chapter proposes that in the absence of a robust body of literature specifically focusing on expatriate academics' experiences of cross-cultural training and support, cross-cultural adjustment and the families of expatriate academic.
