Repatriate Knowledge Transfer

Project: Research

Project participants

  • Deller, Jürgen (Project manager, academic)
  • Osland, Joyce (Partner)
  • Oddou, Gary (Partner)
  • Blakeney, Roger (Partner)

Description

Due to the strategic importance of organisational learning and knowledge transfer in a global economy, the knowledge that repatriates acquire during international assignments is a valuable resource available to the multinational firms (MNCs) who send them abroad. Few MNCs, however actively harvest this knowledge from their repatriates, even though the literature clearly identifies the types of knowledge and competencies gained in expatriate assignments. Scholars have likewise overlooked this aspect of the expatriation-repatriation cycle; only one empirical study has been published to date. Therefore, the purpose of this project is to test a model of repatriate knowledge transfer, based on an adaptation of communication theory, and to identify the facilitative and inhibiting factors of work. The first stage consists of 15 structured interviews with repatriates in three countries (Germany, Japan, and U.S.A.) for a total of 45 interviews. The second stage will consists of a survey administered to at least 100 repatriates from firms in two industries in each country for a quantitative sample of 300 participants. In Germany Infineon, Otto, SAP, and Volkswagen have already participated in the first phase of this study.
The study is conducted in a multinational research team of international scholars: Joyce Osland, Lucas Endowed Professor of Global Leadership at San Jose State University, Gary Oddou, California State University - San Marcos, and Roger Blakeney, University of Houston.
StatusFinished
Period01.01.0701.01.14

Recently viewed

Researchers

  1. Jörg Hügel

Publications

  1. Methoden transdisziplinärer Forschung und Lehre
  2. Model-based potential analysis of the distribution logistics:
  3. Company reputation and its influence on consumer trust in response to ongoing CSR communication
  4. Abstrakte Gefährdungslagen
  5. From Critique to Problems and the Politics of the In-act with Bergson, Deleuze and James
  6. Priority effects transcend scales and disciplines in biology
  7. Hölderlin und der Mythos
  8. MOLGEN 5.0, a Molecular Structure Generator
  9. Der Sound der Macht
  10. Rethinking the meaning of “landscape shocks” in energy transitions
  11. Warum Computerspieler mit dem Computer spielen
  12. Capability of social life cycle assessment for analyzing the artisanal small-scale gold mining sector—case study in the Amazonian rainforest in Brazil
  13. Issues and Research Opportunities in Environmental Accounting
  14. Loan managers’ trust and credit access for SMEs
  15. Are levels of democracy affected by mass attitudes? Testing attainment and sustainment effects on democracy
  16. Offene Rituale in der Gruppenarbeit mit Kindern
  17. Small Input Devices Used by the Elderly -
  18. TROLLS, MAGICIANS, THE POWER AND OTHER MIRACULOUS ADVENTURES - A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO INTERACTIVE COMPUTER FAIRY-TALES
  19. Implementing education for sustainable development in the German school system
  20. Magnesium alloy containing silver for degradable biomedical implants
  21. LGVT
  22. VIPs in der Lesesozialisation ?
  23. Smartphone = Smart Learning? Englischlernen per App und Co.
  24. Entrepreneurial orientation and business performance
  25. The new US horizontal merger guidelines
  26. Plea Bargaining/Settlement of Cartel Cases
  27. Process data from electronic textbooks indicate students' classroom engagement
  28. (Re)Folding Zagreb
  29. Kommunikative Vermittlung des Imaginären
  30. Pete Rock
  31. Kant meets Minkowski
  32. Internet