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Overview

Margaret A. Shaffer is affiliated with the University of Oklahoma in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the broad fields of Social Sciences and Business, Management and Accounting, with a focus on several subfields including Communication, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, and Gender Studies.

Their recent scholarly work includes publications that address various aspects of workplace dynamics, global mobility, and cultural intelligence. Notable papers include:

  • High commitment work systems and employee well-being: The roles of workplace friendship and task interdependence (2021), published in Human Resource Management
  • The potential of virtual global mobility: implications for practice and future research (2021), published in Journal of Global Mobility The Home of Expatriate Management Research
  • A transactional stress theory of global work demands: A challenge, hindrance, or both? (2022), published in Journal of Applied Psychology
  • Unpacking the emergence of born global founders: A careers perspective (2020), published in Journal of Small Business Management
  • Cultural intelligence: An identity lens on the influence of cross-cultural experience (2022), published in Journal of International Management

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations include Yejun Zhang, Mihaela Dimitrova, Yu-Ping Chen, Mila Lazarova, and Min Wan. These collaborators have contributed significantly to the body of work associated with their research network.

Margaret A. Shaffer's work has been disseminated through a number of publication venues. Among the most frequent are:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Journal of Global Mobility The Home of Expatriate Management Research
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Human Resource Management
  • Applied Psychology

The primary research topics addressed in their studies include international student and expatriate challenges, job satisfaction and organizational behavior, work-family balance challenges, family business performance and succession, gender diversity and inequality, higher education governance and development, and knowledge management and sharing.

This profile reflects a comprehensive overview of Margaret A. Shaffer's academic focus, collaboration patterns, subject matter expertise, and publication history within the social sciences and management disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Input-based and time-based models of international adjustment: Meta-analytic evidence and theoretical extensions

    Purnima Bhaskar-Shrinivas;David A. Harrison;Margaret A. Shaffer;Dora M. Luk

  • Dimensions, Determinants, and Differences in the Expatriate Adjustment Process

    Margaret A. Shaffer;David A. Harrison;K. Matthew Gilley

  • You can take it with you: individual differences and expatriate effectiveness.

    Margaret A Shaffer;David A Harrison;Hal Gregersen;J Stewart Black

  • EXPATRIATES' PSYCHOLOGICAL WITHDRAWAL FROM INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS: WORK, NONWORK, AND FAMILY INFLUENCES

    Margaret A. Shaffer;David A. Harrison

  • In search of sustained competitive advantage: the impact of organizational culture, competitive strategy and human resource management practices on firm performance

    Lismen L.M. Chan;Margaret A. Shaffer;Ed Snape

  • Choices, Challenges, and Career Consequences of Global Work Experiences: A Review and Future Agenda

    Margaret A. Shaffer;Maria L. Kraimer;Yu Ping Chen;Mark C. Bolino

  • The tug of work and family: Direct and indirect domain‐specific determinants of work‐family conflict

    Carmen K. Fu;Margaret A. Shaffer

  • Struggling for balance amid turbulence on international assignments: work–family conflict, support and commitment

    Margaret A. Shaffer;David A. Harrison;K. Matthew Gilley;Dora M. Luk

  • Equity and relationship quality influences on organizational citizenship behaviors: The mediating role of trust in the supervisor and empowerment

    Dennis Wat;Margaret A. Shaffer

  • Forgotten partners of international assignments: development and test of a model of spouse adjustment.

    Margaret A. Shaffer;David A. Harrison

  • Elucidating the Positive Side of the Work-Family Interface on International Assignments: A Model of Expatriate Work and Family Performance

    Mila Lazarova;Mina Westman;Margaret Shaffer

  • GOING PLACES: ROADS MORE AND LESS TRAVELED IN RESEARCH ON EXPATRIATE EXPERIENCES

    David A Harrison;Margaret A. Shaffer;Purnima Bhaskar-Shrinivas

  • The influence of expatriate and repatriate experiences on career advancement and repatriate retention

    Maria L. Kraimer;Margaret A. Shaffer;Mark C. Bolino

  • No Place Like Home? An Identity Strain Perspective on Repatriate Turnover

    Maria L. Kraimer;Margaret A. Shaffer;David A. Harrison;Hong Ren

  • Gender discrimination and job-related outcomes: a cross-cultural comparison of working women in the United States and China.

    Margaret A. Shaffer;Janice R.W. Joplin;Myrtle P. Bell;Theresa Lau

  • Work and family domain stressors and support: Within‐ and cross‐domain influences on work–family conflict

    Dora M. Luk;Margaret A. Shaffer

  • Mapping the criterion space for expatriate success: task- and relationship-based performance, effort and adaptation

    David A. Harrison;Margaret A. Shaffer

  • AN INVESTIGATION OF EXPATRIATE ADJUSTMENT AND PERFORMANCE: A SOCIAL CAPITAL PERSPECTIVE

    Xiangyang Liu;Margaret A. Shaffer

  • The Macro-Environment and Work-Family Conflict Development of a Cross Cultural Comparative Framework

    Janice R. W. Joplin;Margaret A. Shaffer;Anne Marie Francesco;Theresa Lau

  • Career Success: The Effects of Personality.

    Victor P. Lau;Margaret A. Shaffer

  • Input-based and time-based models of international adjustment

    Purnima Bhaskar-Shrinivas;David A. Harrison;Margaret A. Shaffer;Dora M. Luk

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Harrison
David A. Harrison The University of Texas at Austin
Mina Westman
Mina Westman Tel Aviv University
Maria L. Kraimer
Maria L. Kraimer Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Mark C. Bolino
Mark C. Bolino University of Oklahoma
Myrtle P. Bell
Myrtle P. Bell The University of Texas at Arlington
Nadya A. Fouad
Nadya A. Fouad University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Ed Snape
Ed Snape Hong Kong Baptist University
Hal B. Gregersen
Hal B. Gregersen Brigham Young University

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