Abstract Ventures of manufacturing multinationals into overseas markets are on the rise despite the recent rising protectionism. The optimal selection of international human resources is one of the critical success factors contributing to cross-border task performance and manufacturing efficiency. This paper addresses the expatriate selection problem by presenting an integrated two-stage optimization approach that makes use of data envelopment analysis and decision trees. A survey of 317 expatriates is conducted in multinational manufacturing productions for demonstrating the applicability and effectiveness of the proposed optimization approach. Findings reveal the optimal match between different sets of human critical success factors and the external system variables under two different settings of cultural flows. This study contributes to the existing research by proposing an effective and practical optimization approach for selecting the best expatriates for cross-border production assignments.

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优化选择外派人员进行跨境外派以提高制造效率

摘要 尽管最近保护主义抬头​​，但制造业跨国公司进入海外市场的风险仍在上升。国际人力资源的优化选择是促成跨境任务绩效和制造效率的关键成功因素之一。本文通过提出一种利用数据包络分析和决策树的集成两阶段优化方法来解决外派人员选择问题。在跨国制造生产中对 317 名外派人员进行了调查，以证明所提出的优化方法的适用性和有效性。研究结果揭示了在两种不同的文化流动环境下，不同的人类关键成功因素与外部系统变量之间的最佳匹配。