Purpose – This paper proposes a methodology for governing expatriate assignments in the context of corporate‐level objectives. Design/methodology/approach – The approach taken is to envisage expatriate managerial assignments within the theoretical framework of agency theory and the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how to incorporate knowledge concepts into analytical models of strategy formulation and the strategic theory of the firm. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines four different perspectives of the elusive concept of...