This paper applies a generalized exchange perspective to examine how and when reintegration in headquarters (HQ) facilitates repatriate knowledge transfer (RKT). Specifically, we theorize how the preparatory stage for repatriation – when expatriates are still abroad – enhances reintegration...

Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to test Nonaka's ((1994) Organization Science, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 14-37) a priori model of organizational knowledge creation with data collected from 105 Japanese middle managers. The results provide strong support for viewing organizational knowledge...

On the basis of the data collected from responses to our questionnaire sent to 1,000 firms each in Japan and the United States, as well as an intensive comparative analysis of a few representative firms, our study has examined (1) general characteristics of strategy and organization for...