Gaggiotti 2006. “Going from Spain and Latin America to Central Asia: decision-making of expatriation and meaning of work”, IN: The Central Asia Business Journal. V. 1. (1), pp. 8-22. Gaggiotti 2006, “Going from Spain and Latin America to Central Asia: …” 8 Going from Spain and Latin America to Central Asia: decision-making of expatriation and meaning of work Dr. Hugo Gaggiotti Abstract I this paper I want to describe and compare the relationship between meaning of work (MOW) among managers of different levels and different companies, analyze the socio-economic and work implications that might have, for the companies and the employees, the decisions of encouraging, accepting or rejecting the delocalization according to the meaning managers give to work, to social responsibility and to delocalization and to establish a scale that allows showing the behavior of the managers in a delocalizing environment and the responsibility before work. The data was collected through a brief questionnaire handed out among one hundred sixty five Spanish (Catalan) managers of different levels, age and gender, and with a different degree of responsibility. The goal of the paper is to find out the meaning of work and the attitude before the potential internationalization of intermediate level employees working for companies which are considering the possibility of an international expansion to Central Asia. Introduction The second quarter of 2003 was a particularly intense period regarding decisions, discourse, impact and measures of business delocalization in Spain (Fig. 1). The future incorporation of new countries to the EU, which are providers of labor, cheap raw materials and favorable settling conditions, implied not only a debate about what delocalization can give rise to, but also the implementation of