Percepção dos expatriados quanto aos fatores institucionais que proporcionam melhores condições de vida nos países hospedeiros

Abstract

The expatriation strategy success is intrinsically related to the expatriate and his family’s life in the country of the foreign subsidiary installation. Having explained the importance of understanding the local aspects on the adaptation, adjustment and development of the expatriate, the objective of this study was to analyze their perception of the institutional factors that provide a better life quality in the host countries. This is a quantitative research that involved secondary data obtained from the HSBC Expat Explorer Broadening perspectives report, published in 2017. In order to obtain the analysis of the expatriate’s perspective according to each country, a Cluster Analysis was initially carried out to group the countries in consonance to similarities and differences in the expatriates’ visions of nine variables regarding the following aspects, economical, experience and familiar, while later a Discriminant Analysis was conducted to validate the results obtained. After the data analysis, it was found the existence of three groupings, one with a greater appreciation of the experience aspects, another with a relatively equal valuation of both experience and economical aspects and one with a bigger appraisement of economical aspects. It was concluded that although the expatriation motivations are varied, the better positioned countries in the overall ranking were exactly the ones that valued both experience and economical aspects, showing a preference from the expatriates for countries who offered more extensive life conditions in the three aspects rather than the ones that had high scores in only one or two aspects.