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Fostering Assigned Expatriates' Innovativeness via Culturally Intelligent Supervisors: A Resource Gain Perspective

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  • Eren Akkan

    (PULV - Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci)

  • S. Kubra Canhilal

    (ISG - ISG International Business School [Paris])

  • Mehmet A. Orhan

    (Métis Lab EM Normandie - EM Normandie - École de Management de Normandie)

Abstract

Assigned expatriates play a role in the innovations of multinational companies (MNCs). Yet, we still know little about how MNCs can help their expatriates towards being more innovative. In this study, we draw on conservation of resources theory to propose that perceived host country national (HCN) supervisor cultural intelligence (CQ), as a contextual resource, positively influences expatriates' innovativeness via two personal resource pathways. Specifically, we suggest that expatriates' work engagement and subsidiary socialization, as corresponding personal energy and personal knowledge pathways, positively mediate between perceived HCN supervisor CQ and expatriate innovativeness. We further hypothesize that expatriate cultural metacognition, as a key resource, helps expatriates utilize contextual resources more effectively to generate personal resources to innovate, and thus, it positively moderates the two mediation pathways. We use time-lagged data collected from assigned expatriates to test our hypotheses. We discuss our theoretical and practical contributions to the international human resource management literature. \textcopyright 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

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  • Eren Akkan & S. Kubra Canhilal & Mehmet A. Orhan, 2023. "Fostering Assigned Expatriates' Innovativeness via Culturally Intelligent Supervisors: A Resource Gain Perspective," Post-Print hal-04300348, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04300348
    DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2022.2064718
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