When a Subsidiary Loses its Status: Towards an Identification-based Model of Host Country Nationals' Willingness to Share Knowledge with Expatriates

• Main Authors: Yamao, Sachiko, Yoshikawa, Toru
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/3581; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/4580/viewcontent/AIB2013_Proceedings.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We theorize how a foreign subsidiary’s loss of its status relative to other units of the same multinational corporation (MNC) will influence host country national (HCN) managers’ dual organizational identification and their willingness to share knowledge with expatriate managers. In particular, we e...