Expanding horizons on expatriate adjustment: A look at the role of emotional display and status

•Paper identifies emotional display rules as an area of expatriate experiences to be researched.•Reviews how emotional display rules may be important to expatriate adjustment.•Reviews how status may interact with emotional display in expatriate experiences.•Provides potential areas for future research to expand where research currently exists on expatriate management.

As organizations are becoming increasingly global, the number of expatriate workers around the globe is increasing. Although expatriate adjustment has been well researched, other aspects of the expatriate's cross-cultural experience have not been examined in depth. This review explores one such aspect, the role of emotion in cross-cultural experiences, and examines literature from the 1990's to present on emotion and status as it could relate to the expatriate experience. Specifically, the authors examine the role of emotion across cultures, emotional display rules and status in order to deepen our understanding of how emotion could affect international adjustment and the training process. In addition, the authors provide avenues for future research.