Developing a Sustainability-Driven Learning Organization through Expatriate Knowledge Transfer: The Case of Haier

Autor/inn/en	Sun, Yixin; Hong, Jacky
Titel	Developing a Sustainability-Driven Learning Organization through Expatriate Knowledge Transfer: The Case of Haier
Quelle	In: Learning Organization, 29 (2022) 5, S.485-505 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0969-6474
DOI	10.1108/TLO-01-2022-0010
Schlagwörter	Sustainability; Foreign Nationals; Knowledge Level; Organizational Change; Employees; Schemata (Cognition); Transfer of Training; Foreign Countries; Developing Nations; Organizational Learning; Employee Attitudes; China; Pakistan; India; Philippines + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Nachhaltigkeit; Ausländer; Ausländerin; Wissensbasis; Organisationswandel; Employee; Arbeitnehmer; Beschäftigter; Cognition; Schema; Kognition; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Ausland; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Organisationslernen; Arbeitnehmerinteresse; Indien; Philippinen
Abstract	Purpose: This study aims to examine how expatriates' knowledge can be adopted to transform the mental models at the subsidiary level and develop a sustainability-driven learning organization in the context of emerging multinational enterprises (EMNEs). Design/methodology/approach: Through an inductive interpretive analysis of three Haier subsidiaries from developing countries, this study compares between old and new understandings of sustainability and examines how expatriates' knowledge can facilitate shifts toward the new to foster a sustainability-driven learning organization. Findings: The authors find that subsidiary employees face strategic and operational ambiguity concerning sustainability issues and that a mix of dissemination and reinforcement routines that align with headquarters' expectations are used to maintain a continuous sustainability-driven learning pattern. Though EMNE subsidiaries may have contrasting understandings of sustainability, expatriate knowledge transfer can help change subsidiaries' mental models and thus create sustainable capabilities and mindsets that form a sustainability-driven learning organization at the subsidiary level. Originality/value: This study reveals the potential in applying expatriate knowledge transfer to transforming sustainable mental models in building sustainability-driven learning organizations. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01