Predicting Stickiness Factors in the International Transfer of Knowledge Through Expatriates

Kimmo Riusala and Adam Smale

International Studies of Management & Organization, 2007, vol. 37, issue 3, 16-43

Abstract: Building on recent theoretical developments on the notion of expatriates as knowledge transferors, the objectives of this quantitative study were (1) to identify the types of knowledge being transferred and the corresponding levels of expatriate participation in these transfers, and (2) to apply the theoretical model of stickiness factors presented in this paper to identify those factors that have particular significance for expatriates. From a sample of Finnish expatriates, the results reveal that expatriates are involved in transfers of several different types of knowledge, often requiring them to work across functions. Furthermore, knowledge-related and, to a lesser extent, organizational-related stickiness factors dominated those related to the social and relational contexts in explaining the difficulty of knowledge transfers from the expatriates' perspective.

Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.2753/IMO0020-8825370301

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