A Study of the Effects of Repatriate Management on Knowledge Dissemination and Knowledge Sharing Behavior in International Businesses

Under the globalization era, enterprises are facing dynamic business environments and developing towards global enterprises. In order to pursue global integration and corporate sustainable management, a lot of multinational corporations regard expatriation as a tool to train managers' leadership, expecting to develop and cultivate such managers' knowledge of international economic environment and transnational management through expatriation. Good repatriate management presents positive effects on corporate knowledge sharing, but it is easily ignored. Consequently, this study intends to discuss the effect of repatriate management on knowledge dissemination and knowledge sharing behavior in international businesses. With convenience sampling, total 380 copies of questionnaire are distributed to the expatriates, who have completed overseas expatriation and returned the country, aiming at Chinese enterprises ranked in global 500 enterprises announced by the confidential research of Financial Times with higher degree of internationalization. Total 262 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 69%. The research results conclude that 1. repatriate management presents positive relations with knowledge dissemination, 2. knowledge dissemination shows positive relations with knowledge sharing behavior, and 3. repatriate management reveals positive relations with knowledge sharing behavior. Based on the analysis results, suggestions are eventually proposed in this study, expecting to assist domestic international businesses in the repatriate management.