Expatriates provide benefits to multinational corporations (MNCs) when they enact boundary spanning roles. They do so by relaying local information and identifying opportunities that meet internal needs of MNCs. To test hypotheses based on social capital and role theories, we surveyed 232...

This study explores the properties of intra-cultural variation in an attempt to legitimize it as a cultural construct. Reanalyzing data from the World Value Survey showed that intra-cultural variations explain cultural differences as much as, if not more than, cultural means. Factor analysis on...