As China’s global presence continues to grow, Chinese expatriates have increasingly taken up international assignments (IAs) around the world. Research on how expatriates adjust to their assignments, however, has been overwhelmingly conducted on Western ones, and their applicability to Chinese expatriates remains unclear. This chapter examines how expatriates in five European subsidiaries of
... [Show full abstract] large Chinese multinationals develop and use guanxi in the host country, and how this affects their adjustment. The findings contribute more generally to an understudied area of research on illuminating a variety of practices aimed at initiating, building, and utilizing guanxi in alien cultures.