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A sociocultural perspective on expatriation willingness: The mediating role of cultural intelligence

ABSTRACT As expatriates’ lack of motivation to work overseas and firms’ ineffective screening and selection criteria for expatriates cause expatriation failures, identifying and recruiting candidates who are willing to accept future expatriate assignments has become an important strategic imperative among hospitality practitioners and educators. The purpose of this study is to identify antecedents of hospitality students’ expatriation willingness and demonstrate how the antecedents develop expatriation willingness. From a sociocultural perspective based on job resources-demands theory and selfefficacy theory, we hypothesized international travel experience, intercultural social contact in daily life, and cultural intelligence (CQ) are positively related to expatriation willingness. We also hypothesized CQ to mediate the direct relationship between international travel experience and expatriation willingness and between daily intercultural social contact and expatriation willingness. Results of structural equation modeling of the data from 370 students supported all the hypotheses in this study. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.