Medical requests for assistance from globally mobile populations: contrasting international assignees from different sectors
by Robert L. Quigley; Lisbeth Claus; Michael Dothan
European J. of International Management (EJIM), Vol. 9, No. 6, 2015

Abstract: The requests for assistance to an assistance service provider of international assignees and their dependents employed in corporate, governmental and non-governmental organisations were compared in terms of closing diagnoses and case outcome types. Using institutional theory and the resource-based view of the firm, we hypothesise that these sectors have different approaches to duty of care that lead to different medical diagnoses and outcomes when international assignees need assistance for issues impacting their health. The findings indicate that there are differences in duty of care between the sectors with international assignees sent by government and non-governmental organisation employers experiencing different medical diagnoses and case outcomes upon diagnosis from those sent by corporate employers. These results have important implications for managing the duty of care considerations and the necessity of providing support for international assignees and their dependents.

Online publication date: Mon, 05-Oct-2015

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