TY - CHAP

T1 - Repatriate knowledge transfer

T2 - A systematic review of the literature

AU - Burmeister, Anne

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - Expatriates acquire highly valuable knowledge during their international assignments, but knowledge transfer upon their return to the domestic organization often fails. Since the first empirical study in 2000, scholars have advanced the competency-based view of repatriation by developing conceptual models of repatriate knowledge transfer and examining the antecedents of successful transfer attempts. However, much empirical research still remains to be done. In order to guide future empirical research, I present the results of a systematic review of the literature on repatriate knowledge transfer between 2000 and 2015. The extant research results are synthesized into a multilevel framework that consists of factors on the individual, dyadic, and organizational level that influence repatriate knowledge transfer success. In addition, I identify theoretical and methodological shortcomings of the literature, and discuss avenues for future research as well as implications for practitioners.

AB - Expatriates acquire highly valuable knowledge during their international assignments, but knowledge transfer upon their return to the domestic organization often fails. Since the first empirical study in 2000, scholars have advanced the competency-based view of repatriation by developing conceptual models of repatriate knowledge transfer and examining the antecedents of successful transfer attempts. However, much empirical research still remains to be done. In order to guide future empirical research, I present the results of a systematic review of the literature on repatriate knowledge transfer between 2000 and 2015. The extant research results are synthesized into a multilevel framework that consists of factors on the individual, dyadic, and organizational level that influence repatriate knowledge transfer success. In addition, I identify theoretical and methodological shortcomings of the literature, and discuss avenues for future research as well as implications for practitioners.

KW - Management studies

KW - Social Capital

KW - Knowledge Transfer

KW - Knowledge Sharing

KW - Organizational Learning

KW - Social Exchange Theory

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85028887340&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1057/978-1-137-57406-0_8

DO - 10.1057/978-1-137-57406-0_8

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

AN - SCOPUS:85028887340

SN - 9781137574053

SP - 225

EP - 264

BT - Expatriate Management

A2 - Bader, Benjamin

A2 - Schuster, Tassilo

A2 - Bader, Anna Katharina

PB - Palgrave Macmillan

CY - London

ER -