This article aims to analyze the mobility as a new symbolic capital in the organizational world. We based our analyses in three key questions: a) mobility is already a socioorganizational need; b) the ideological transformation from this need into virtue gives to mobility the character of new capital; and, c) the expatriation of both - professionals and companies - leads to a new type of nomadism which reinforces mobility as a desirable value. We propose and use a wide concept of mobility, based on organizational empirical life, which means the ability, the disposition and the individual wish to move abroad in order to interact with cultural differences, different types of organizations, positions and knowledge. The concept of symbolic capital was taken from Bourdieu, whom developed and consolidated conceptual elements for a social action theory (1972, 1980, 1994), and, in association with Passeron (1964, 1970), analyzed social reproduction mechanisms.
Mobility; Intercultural management; Expatriation; Symbolic value