The Bridging Role of Expatriates and Inpatriates in Knowledge Transfer in Multinational Corporations
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© 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com). DOI:10.1002/hrm.21681 Correspondence to: Anne-Wil Harzing, Middlesex University, The Burroughs, Hendon, London NW4 4BT, United Kingdom, Tel: +44 (0) 20 8411 4407; E-mail: [email protected] suggests that at the subsidiary level, this knowledge is not only transferred by traditional parent-country national (PCN) expatriates but also by other forms of assignees (i.e., third-country nationals [TCNs]) (Hocking, Brown, & Harzing, 2007) and inpatriates (i.e., local managers who have been inpatriated to headquarters) (Reiche, 2011; Tharenou & Harvey, 2006). It has also been Introduction
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