Globalization has had many effects on the world of business. One of these effects is an increase in employees that are relocated on assignments abroad. An important issue of expatriate management is the repatriation of expatriates. This is a major but often neglected issue. This study investigates how expatriates experience that their knowledge gained from international assignments is transferred and exploited by the MNC. The results from 93 expatriates from eleven Large Cap companies suggest that knowledge is not exploited trough formal mechanisms. Instead informal mechanisms of knowledge transfer such as networks and own initiatives seem to be a more common way of transferring and exploiting knowledge in the investigated MNCs. The findings indicate that the knowledge that the expatriates that failed their mission abroad gained is not exploited to the same extent as the expatriates that successfully completed their assignments. This analysis should be especially interesting for HR managers and expatriates that wish to gain a deeper understanding of knowledge transfer and learning within MNCs.
Haupteigenschaften
Autor
Ulrika Kilnes
Verlagsinformation
Verlag
VDM
Veröffentlichung
2009
Zusätzliche Information
Format
Taschenbuch
Sprachausgabe
Englisch
Seiten
56 Seiten
Gewicht
96 g
EAN
9783836456739
ISBN
3836456737
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