A PERSPECTIVA DOS EXPATRIADOS SOBRE ASPECTOS DO AMBIENTE INSTITUCIONAL QUE INFLUENCIAM SUAS CONDIÇÕES DE VIDA NOS PAÍSES HOSPEDEIROS.

Objective: The study aimed to analyze the expatriates´perspective on aspects of the institutional environment that influence their living conditions in the host countries. Method: It was a quantitative research, with secondary data obtained from the HSBC Expat Explorer Broadening perspectives report, published in 2017. A cluster analysis was carried out to group countries on nine variables related to economic, experience and family's. Main results: The results were validated through discriminant analysis. It was found that there are three groups, one with a greater appreciation of the aspects of experience, another with an equivalent appreciation of the aspects of experience and economics and another with a greater appreciation of aspects of family. Relevance/originality: As living conditions in other countries can influence the expatriate's intercultural adjustment and the duration of expatriation, and may even culminate in an early repatriation, this study is relevant and original because it relates themes that are usually studied separately: institutional factors of countries, living conditions in countries and expatriation. Theoretical/methodological contributions: The study expands the discussions by considering the perspective of expatriates on how the institutional factors of the host countries influence the living conditions they will have elsewhere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]