Abstract

with more and more multi-national corporations in this globalization age, the research on effective expatriate utilization is attracting increasing attention. Because of the culture difference, the characteristics of expatriate in different countries have distinguishing characteristics. In this study, based on multi-dimension analysis of organization, individual, culture and institution, with cases from interview with expatriates, the new factors that influence expatriate repatriation success in Japanese multi-national corporations will be discussed. According to Yan (2002), expatriate repatriation success depends on psychological contracts of expatriate individuals and multi-national corporations. And Morishima (2000) did the research on psychological contracts of general employees in Japanese corporations and changes that have happen. However, how the psychological contracts of expatriates in Japanese multi-national corporations change in recent several decades, and what new characteristics influence their repatriation success is still open to further research. Therefore, in this study, based on theoretic analysis and interviews with these expatriates in Japanese multi-national corporations, these topics will be answered and the propositions of Yan(2002) will be verified