To ‘escape the rut’ of narrowly focusing on expatriate adjustment as a psychological state, we look to the literature on the adjustment of organizational newcomers. From this perspective, we extend theoretical and empirical concepts regarding dynamic social and proactive development processes into the study of expatriate adjustment. Our integrative review of both literatures provides the basis for a new, dynamic research framework as well as promising avenues for future research on expatriate adjustment and insights for the organizational newcomer literature. We aim to enrich expatriate management research and to contribute to cross-fertilization between the two disciplines.

为了“摆脱狭隘地把外派适应视为一种心理状态的陈规”，我们查阅了有关组织新员工适应的文献。从这个角度来看，我们将有关动态社会和主动发展过程的理论和实证概念扩展到外派调整的研究中。我们对这两篇文献的综合回顾为一个新的、动态的研究框架奠定了基础，并为未来的外派调整研究和组织新移民文献的见解提供了有前途的途径。我们的目标是丰富外籍管理研究，并为两个学科之间的交叉融合做出贡献。