Middle management in a foreign land

The following research is aiming at the qualitative study of middle management expatriate experiences. This research aims at analyzing the expatriate middle managers and focusing on their experiences, how they interact with different cultures, their reasons to be there, their struggles and anything that may shape the way they experience their permanence in a host country. The sources to be used for the study will be Italian middle managers working abroad for their company, this will give a good view of how southern Europeans behave as expatriates, which is by its self an under researched area. Sources will be based on primary data as there is very little secondary data available on the selected topic as the literature review will explain. The research is not a comparative approach between top and middle management abroad, but an explanation of the detachment of middle management study, from top management in the area of experience as expatriates which is under researched. Hopefully this will start a new area of study which will benefit the middle managerial community working in host countries.