Organizational international career logics (OICLs): A conceptual tool for analyzing organizational expatriation patterns and their consequences for the management of organizations

Abstract

Expatriation can be regarded as a specific way for multinational corporations (MNCs) to organize the process of environmental scanning and to provide opportunities for further internal information processing. This contribution develops the concept of organizational international career logics as a theoretical construct to describe expatriation patterns in MNCs. This article contains a discussion about the informational link between organization and environment based on the theory of self-organizing social systems. In particular, environmental scanning as the process of generating information through expatriates and its further informational processing within the organization will be discussed and analyzed from a constructivist and systems theoretical perspective. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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