TY - JOUR

T1 - Repatriate knowledge transfer

T2 - Towards the development of a new measurement instrument

AU - Burmeister, Anne

AU - Deller, Jürgen

AU - Osland, Joyce

AU - Oddou, Gary

AU - Szkudlarek, Betina

AU - Blakeney, Roger

PY - 2015/8

Y1 - 2015/8

N2 - To date, no reliable and valid instrument exists that measures repatriate knowledge transfer. Therefore, this paper demonstrates the initial steps of the item and scale development process of a new instrument measuring repatriate knowledge transfer. The original item pool was reduced and four scales were developed based on the following selection criteria: individual item performance (M, SD, skewness, kurtosis), the reliabilities of the scales (inter-item correlation, item-total correlation, Cronbach’s alpha) and the factor structures of the scales (factor loadings, scree test, Eigenvalues, % variance explained). The four scales measure (a) the type of repatriate knowledge transferred, both (b) the ability and (c) the motivation of repatriates to transfer their newly acquired knowledge, as well as (d) the success of repatriate knowledge transfer into the domestic work unit. The next steps in the scale validation process, implications for practitioners and future research opportunities are discussed.

AB - To date, no reliable and valid instrument exists that measures repatriate knowledge transfer. Therefore, this paper demonstrates the initial steps of the item and scale development process of a new instrument measuring repatriate knowledge transfer. The original item pool was reduced and four scales were developed based on the following selection criteria: individual item performance (M, SD, skewness, kurtosis), the reliabilities of the scales (inter-item correlation, item-total correlation, Cronbach’s alpha) and the factor structures of the scales (factor loadings, scree test, Eigenvalues, % variance explained). The four scales measure (a) the type of repatriate knowledge transferred, both (b) the ability and (c) the motivation of repatriates to transfer their newly acquired knowledge, as well as (d) the success of repatriate knowledge transfer into the domestic work unit. The next steps in the scale validation process, implications for practitioners and future research opportunities are discussed.

KW - Business psychology

KW - repatriate knowledge transfer

KW - exploratory factor analysis

KW - international human ressource management

KW - item development

KW - knowledge transfer

KW - repatriation

KW - scale development

U2 - 10.5465/AMBPP.2015.10974abstract

DO - 10.5465/AMBPP.2015.10974abstract

M3 - Conference article in journal

VL - 2015

SP - 1

EP - 34

JO - Academy of Management Proceedings

JF - Academy of Management Proceedings

SN - 0065-0668

IS - 1

ER -