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  1. Drawing on the knowledge of returned expatriates for organizational learning: case studies in German multinational companies

    Abstract: "In order to explore the potential contributions that returned expatriates can make towards helping their organizations to better understand and manage culturally diverse and changing conditions, a pilot study was conducted in two... more

     

    Abstract: "In order to explore the potential contributions that returned expatriates can make towards helping their organizations to better understand and manage culturally diverse and changing conditions, a pilot study was conducted in two German-based companies with a long tradition of international operations. The interviews generated insights not only into the four categories of knowledge used in the organizational learning literature (declarative, procedural, conditional, and axiomatic) but also into a fifth (relational). The analysis indicates that a large gap remains between individual and organizational learning. The barriers encountered by the expatriates in transforming their knowledge into an organizational property lie more in the absence of supportive factors and conditions than in the actual presence of impediments. The authors suggest that many of the problems encountered by returned expatriates are not limited to this specific subgroup but rather serve to highlight those expe

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Other identifier:
    oai:gesis.izsoz.de:document/11606
    DDC Categories: 370; 330
    Series: Schriftenreihe / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Technik - Arbeit - Umwelt, Abteilung Organisation und Technikgenese ; Bd. 00-104
    Subjects: Forschungstransfer; Know-how-Transfer; Organisatorisches Lernen; Multinationales Unternehmen; Auslandspraktikum; Auslandsstudium; Auslandstätigkeit
    Other subjects: (stw)Wissenstransfer; (stw)Lernende Organisation; (stw)Multinationales Unternehmen; (stw)Deutschland; (stw)Auslandsaufenthalt; (thesoz)Bundesrepublik Deutschland; (thesoz)Führungskraft; (thesoz)berufliche Weiterbildung; (thesoz)Organisationsforschung; (thesoz)lernende Organisation; (thesoz)internationale Zusammenarbeit; (thesoz)Auslandstätigkeit; (thesoz)Unternehmen; Arbeitspapier; Graue Literatur; Buch
    Scope: Online-Ressource, 47 S.
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  2. Drawing on the knowledge of returned expatriates for organizational learning
    case studies in German multinational companies
    Published: [2000]
    Publisher:  WZB, Forschungsschwerpunkt Technik, Arbeit, Umwelt, Berlin

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    DDC Categories: 330; 380; 650; 670
    Series: Papers / WZB, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung ; 2000,104 : Schriftenreihe der Abteilung 'Organisation und Technikgenese des Forschungsschwerpunktes Technik, Arbeit, Umwelt am WZB
    Subjects: Forschungstransfer; Know-how-Transfer; Organisatorisches Lernen; Multinationales Unternehmen; Auslandspraktikum; Auslandsstudium; Auslandstätigkeit
    Other subjects: (stw)Wissenstransfer; (stw)Lernende Organisation; (stw)Multinationales Unternehmen; (stw)Deutschland; (stw)Auslandsaufenthalt; Arbeitspapier; Graue Literatur; Buch
    Scope: 47 S., 30 cm
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    Literaturverz. S. 45 - 47