Knowledge transfer and expatriation in multinational corporations: The role of disseminative capacity

By Dana B. Minbaeva, Snejina Michailova. 2004

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Subfields: Communication, Strategy and Management

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Skilled migration and innovation in European industries (2019, background): “Moreover multinational companies often rely on the international mobility of their employees (assigned expatriation) in order to transfer knowledge trans-nationally within their network of subsidiaries (Edström and Galbraith, 1977; Minbaeva and Michailova, 2004; Caligiuri, 2016).”
Dynamic Capabilities and Knowledge Management: an Integrative Role for Learning?* (2008, background): “Similarly, many companies deliberately move expatriates across subsidiaries and national boundaries in order to build and disseminate capabilities (Chung, Gibbons and Schoch, 2006; Minbaeva and Michailova, 2004).”
Expatriates’ international opportunity recognition and innovativeness: The role of metacognitive and cognitive cultural intelligence (2017, background): “This is interesting, given the centrality of expatriates in the knowledge brokerage process due to their access to novel, idiosyncratic, and local information as well as heterogeneous networks (Minbaeva & Michailova, 2004).”
Global staffing: a review and thematic research agenda (2009, background): “Downes and Thomas 2000 ; Minbaeva and Michailova 2004 ).”
Toward a learning-based view of internationalization: The accelerated trajectories of cross-border learning for latecomers (2010, background): “…capacity of one partner will depend on the motive and capability of the other partner to disseminate the available knowledge, referred to as disseminative capacity to delineate the effectiveness of teaching (Minbaeva and Michailova, 2004; cf. Dyer and Hatch, 2006; Martin and Salomon, 2003).”
Globalization of HR at function level: four UK-based case studies of the international recruitment and selection process (2007, background): “…temporary and short-term access to specialized talent in sending countries to assist the execution of overseas projects (Hocking et al., 2004; Minbaeva and Michailova, 2004); and the need for highly mobile elites of management to perform boundaryspanning roles to help build social networks…”
Senior expatriate leadership's effects on innovation and the role of cultural intelligence (2009, background): “Expatriate managers play a critical role in the ability of multinational corporations (MNCs) to transfer managerial expertise and technology as well as maintain control over subsidiaries spread across the globe (Harzing, 2001; Minbaeva & Michailova, 2004).”
The role of international assignees' social capital in creating inter-unit intellectual capital: A cross-level model (2009, background): “Again, whether knowledge transfer occurs is also contingent upon assignees’ ability and motivation to engage in knowledge sharing (Minbaeva and Michailova, 2004).”