Cultural differences in geographic mobility readiness among business management students in Germany and Spain ahead of graduation.

ABSTRACT: Given the increased internationalization of organizations and economies of scale concentrated in urban centers, graduates are often expected to relocate for their first job. Based on Hofstede's model and Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), we examine the effects of cultural dimensions (individualism-collectivism and uncertainty tolerance) as well as subjective norms (parents' and peers' attitudes towards geographic mobility) on readiness for geographic job-related mobility in samples of German and Spanish business management students ahead of graduation from university. The study involved administering a survey questionnaire to 273 third- and fourth-year business management students of two large universities (one in Germany and another in Spain). Cross-cultural measurement invariance of the

SUBMITTER: Baluku MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8225400 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature