Are you an expatriate and originally from a country in Europe?

Dear expatriate,

Are employees with a lot of previous international experience (e.g. study abroad) more willing to work as an expatriate in a foreign country? And will a large social network within the organization help employees getting offered an expatriate assignment?

These questions I will be investigating in my master thesis for the master in Business Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

But, I can’t do this research without your help. For my research I need employees (originally from Europe) who are sent by their organization to a related unit in a foreign country, to accomplish a job or organization related goal for a temporary time period of usually more than six months and less than five years in one term.

If this description corresponds to your situation I would like to ask you to fill in an online survey which will take approximately 10 to 15 minutes. Your responses will be kept in absolute confidence, and they will be used for research purposes only.

Below you will find the link to the survey:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=d … ednw_3d_3d

I would like to thank you in advance for your participation and please do not hesitate to contact me, at the e-mail address listed below, in case you have any questions or comments.

Kind regards,

Bram Kuijken

b.kuijken@student.uva.nl