Repatriates and reverse knowledge transfer in MNCs

Sánchez Vidal, M. E.; Sanz Valle, Raquel; Barba Aragón, María Isabel

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Repatriates and reverse knowledge transfer in MNCs

dc.contributor.author	Sánchez Vidal, M. E.
dc.contributor.author	Sanz Valle, Raquel
dc.contributor.author	Barba Aragón, María Isabel
dc.contributor.department	Organización de Empresas y Finanzas
dc.date.accessioned	2023-12-13T23:10:51Z
dc.date.available	2023-12-13T23:10:51Z
dc.date.issued	2018
dc.description	©2018. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This document is the Accepted version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in The International Journal of Human Resource Management.
dc.description.abstract	There is widely-held assumption that knowledge is one of the most important drivers of firm’s performance. Multinational companies (MNCs) have the potential advantage of acquiring and utilizing knowledge across borders. But for this potential advantage to become real, the knowledge generated in any of their units around the world should be transferred to their other units. This paper adopts an innovative approach for the study of intra-MNC knowledge transfer by focusing on the role of repatriates as transferors of knowledge from foreign subsidiaries to the headquearters, which is an under-research topic. In particular, the paper studies the impact of repatriates´ abilities and motivation to share knowledge (disseminative capacity) on the transfer of knowledge from subsidiaries to headquarters (reverse knowledge transfer). In addition, the paper examines the determinants of repatriates´ disseminative capacity. After reviewing the relevant literature and proposing the hypotheses, this paper presents an empirical research with a sample of Spanish MNCs. The findings provide evidence that repatriates' disseminative capacity is positively associated to reverse knowledge transfer. The paper also identifies some drivers of this: the knowledge the repatriates acquired during the expatriation and the firm´s international assignments policy.
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dc.identifier.citation	The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 29 - 10
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2016.1216876
dc.identifier.issn	0958-5192
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10201/136634
dc.language	eng	es_ES
dc.relation.isreferencedby	ED_IDENTRADA=1280
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject	MNCs	es_ES
dc.subject	knowledge transfer	es_ES
dc.subject	repatriates	es_ES
dc.title	Repatriates and reverse knowledge transfer in MNCs	es_ES
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es_ES
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