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Denmark
2026
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Social Sciences and Humanities
Denmark
2023

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Business and Management

D-Index
54
Citations
8670
World Ranking
790
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Jan Selmer is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark and has contributed to academic research primarily within the social sciences and business management fields. Their research focuses on international mobility, expatriate experiences, and organizational behavior in global contexts.

Selmer's recent publications include:

  • The potential of virtual global mobility: implications for practice and future research, 2021, Journal of Global Mobility The Home of Expatriate Management Research
  • A typology of long-term expatriates: Conceptualization, consequences and future research, 2024, Human Resource Management Review

Selmer frequently collaborates with a core group of coauthors, which includes:

  • Sebastian Stoermer
  • Jakob Lauring
  • Yu-Ping Chen
  • Margaret A. Shaffer
  • Yu-Shan Hsu

Their work has appeared most often in the Journal of Global Mobility The Home of Expatriate Management Research, with additional publications in The International Journal of Human Resource Management, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, and the Human Resource Management Review.

Jan Selmer's research spans several main fields and subfields:

  • Social Sciences
  • Business, Management and Accounting
  • Communication
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Social Psychology
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Gender Studies

Key topics covered in Selmer's body of work are:

  • International Student and Expatriate Challenges
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Knowledge Management and Sharing
  • Higher Education Governance and Development
  • Gender Diversity and Inequality
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Team Dynamics and Performance

Best Publications

  • Who is a self-initiated expatriate? Towards conceptual clarity of a common notion

    Jean-Luc Cerdin;Jan Selmer

  • Language ability and adjustment: Western expatriates in China

    Jan Selmer

  • Expatriate selection: back to basics?

    Jan Selmer

  • Self‐initiated academic expatriates: Inherent demographics and reasons to expatriate

    Jan Selmer;Jakob Lauring

  • The supportive expatriate spouse: An ethnographic study of spouse involvement in expatriate careers

    Jakob Lauring;Jan Selmer

  • Sequential cross-cultural training for expatriate business managers: predeparture and post-arrival

    Jan Selmer;Ingemar Torbiorn;Corinna T. de Leon

  • Cultural distance asymmetry in expatriate adjustment

    Jan Selmer;Randy K. Chiu;Oded Shenkar

  • Cross‐cultural training and expatriate adjustment in China: Western joint venture managers

    Jan Selmer

  • Reasons to expatriate and work outcomes of self‐initiated expatriates

    Jan Selmer;Jakob Lauring

  • International adjustment of female vs male business expatriates

    Jan Selmer;Alicia S.M. Leung

  • Cultural novelty and adjustment: Western business expatriates in China

    Jan Selmer

  • Career issues and international adjustment of business expatriates

    Jan Selmer

  • Multicultural organizations: common language, knowledge sharing and performance

    Jakob Lauring;Jan Selmer

  • Expatriate Management: New Ideas for International Business

    Jan Selmer

  • International language management and diversity climate in multicultural organizations

    Jakob Lauring;Jan Selmer

  • Parent cultural control through organizational acculturation: HCN employees learning new work values in foreign business subsidiaries

    Jan Selmer;Corinna De Leon

  • The preference for predeparture or postarrival cross‐cultural training – An exploratory approach

    Jan Selmer

  • Which Is Easier, Adjusting to a Similar or to a Dissimilar Culture? American Business Expatriates in Canada and Germany

    Jan Selmer

  • Multicultural organizations: Common language and group cohesiveness

    Jakob Lauring;Jan Selmer

  • Knowledge sharing in diverse organisations

    Jakob Lauring;Jan Selmer

  • Marital status and work outcomes of self‐initiated expatriates: Is there a moderating effect of gender?

    Jan Selmer;Jakob Lauring

Frequent Co-Authors

Vesa Suutari
Vesa Suutari University of Vaasa
Rosalie L. Tung
Rosalie L. Tung Simon Fraser University
Oded Shenkar
Oded Shenkar The Ohio State University

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