ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the third D in our model: the dynamics of time. It is obvious that an expatriate who has been in a host country for several months has had more opportunity to adjust than one who has just arrived. In fact, because much of the research on expatriates has been cross-sectional and numbers have rarely been large enough to carry out detailed statistical work on different cohorts, this obvious fact is often ignored in the writing about expatriate adjustment. It is, however, so crucial to our understanding that we need to focus on it much more carefully. This chapter therefore explores the notion of the temporal dynamics of adjustment in some detail.
