The international transfer of individual career capital: exploring and developing a model of the underlying factors

Purpose The purpose of this literature review is to critically analyze, synthesize and integrate the currently fragmented concerning factors affecting international transfer individual career capital (CC). Design/methodology/approach This paper a systematic CC from/for expatriates, repatriates other employed highly skilled migrants return migrants. findings are classified based on Social Chronology Framework (SCF) proposed by Gunz Mayrhofer (2015). Findings suggests that CC, which can be expressed both as (1) individual-level across different organizations located in countries direct use application (2) knowing-how individuals within organization, affected individual, organizational broader contextual-level bound aspect time. authors summarize presenting model CC. Originality/value align framework (Defillippi Arthur, 1994) SCF (Gunz Mayrhofer, 2018) explaining go beyond qualities including Being, Space Time domains. Moreover, critique current focus present suggesting future research should explore phenomenon more dynamic process. Finally, contribute global mobility employees' highlighting gaps knowledge agenda.