کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
879628 911429 2014 14 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Expatriate knowledge utilization and MNE performance: A multilevel framework
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی مدیریت، کسب و کار و حسابداری بازاریابی و مدیریت بازار
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Expatriate knowledge utilization and MNE performance: A multilevel framework
چکیده انگلیسی


• Expatriate knowledge utilization is a multilevel and cyclical process.
• Expatriate learning helps continued knowledge flow to subsidiary and home division.
• Knowledge transfer to the subsidiary can continue upon repatriation.
• Outward knowledge transfer can begin before repatriation.

We present a multilevel conceptual framework of expatriate knowledge utilization. Drawing from the resource-based view and multilevel approaches to expatriate utilization, we describe how individual expatriate characteristics (task-related and intercultural competencies, and motivation to transfer knowledge) and international adjustment, as well as subsidiary characteristics (absorptive capacity and knowledge sustainability) influence knowledge transfer effectiveness. We also draw from outward knowledge transfer and expatriate learning perspectives to address the cyclical nature of the process. As such, we include the effect of expatriate learning not only in continued knowledge flows to the subsidiary, but also in knowledge flows to the home division. We offer several implications for research on practice, including the notion that knowledge transfer to the subsidiary should continue upon repatriation, and that outward knowledge transfer can begin before repatriation. The framework reiterates that expatriates are valuable human capital and a source of sustained competitive advantage to the MNE.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Human Resource Management Review - Volume 24, Issue 4, December 2014, Pages 299–312
نویسندگان
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