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

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Researchers

  1. Rimma Kanevski

Publications

  1. Vom Cassislikör zur E-Commerce-Richtlinie
  2. Performing university space
  3. Soil chemical legacies trigger species-specific and context-dependent root responses in later arriving plants
  4. Model-based potential analysis of the distribution logistics:
  5. Aligning Experimentation with Product Operations
  6. Using visual stimuli to explore the social perceptions of ecosystem services in cultural landscapes
  7. Magnús eiríksson
  8. Adaptive Lehrerinterventionen beim mathematischen Modellieren
  9. Diversity-enhanced canopy space occupation and leaf functional diversity jointly promote overyielding in tropical tree communities
  10. Polite rejections
  11. Addressing social representations in socio-technical transitions with the case of shale gas
  12. Mathematik in Bewegung
  13. Monoculture and mixture-planting of non-native Douglas fir alters species composition, but promotes the diversity of ground beetles in a temperate forest system
  14. Incorporating the social-ecological approach in protected areas in the anthropocene
  15. How interest groups adapt to the changing forest governance landscape in the EU
  16. Contested World Order
  17. Constructing The European Space Policy
  18. How Participatory Should Environmental Governance Be?
  19. Lambarene
  20. Tree species richness strengthens relationships between ants and the functional composition of spider assemblages in a highly diverse forest
  21. Assessing Drifting Fish Aggregating Device (dFAD) Abandonment under International Marine Pollution Law
  22. Governing the co-production of nature's contributions to people
  23. COVID-19 and the ageing workforce
  24. Teaching about sustainability through inquiry-based science in Irish primary classrooms
  25. Local organochlorine pesticide concentrations in soil put into a global perspective
  26. Kollegiale Fallberatung in inklusiven Settings
  27. The Power of Support in High-Risk Countries
  28. Sustainable Entrepreneurship – Creating Environmental Solutions
  29. Future Making
  30. Bioconversion of agri-food residues into lactic acid
  31. Isolation Playground
  32. A note on firm age and the margins of imports: first evidence from Germany
  33. A Matter of Framing: Analyzing Value Communication in Sustainable Business Models
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