Short-term international business travel's effectiveness for expatriate training

Increasing globalization in the economic and other social areas has led to more and more expatriate assignment. Because much of this expatriate assignment has some problems, expatriate training has been respected very much. Many scholars consider that it has significant relation with expatriates' performance. By reviewing the expatriate training literature (Social learning Theory and other related researches), it is found that short-term international business travel is an effective training method. This research also offers a theoretical framework with 4 propositions for future research on expatriate training.