Intercultural Knowledge Sharing Between Expatriates and Host-country Nationals in Vietnam: A Practice-based Study of Communicative Relations and Power Dynamics

Heizmann, H; Fee, A; Gray, SJ

Intercultural Knowledge Sharing Between Expatriates and Host-country Nationals in Vietnam: A Practice-based Study of Communicative Relations and Power Dynamics

Heizmann, H

Fee, A

Gray, SJ

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Citation:: Journal of International Management, 2018, 24 (1), pp. 16 - 32
Issue Date:: 2018-03-01

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dc.contributor.author	Heizmann, H https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4769-7493	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Fee, A https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0598-0776	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Gray, SJ	en_US
dc.date.available	2020-08-01T19:08:47Z
dc.date.issued	2018-03-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of International Management, 2018, 24 (1), pp. 16 - 32	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1075-4253	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/115081
dc.description.abstract	© 2017 Elsevier Inc. We examine the communicative enabling practices and power dynamics of intercultural knowledge sharing relationships between Australian expatriates and host-country nationals from a practice-based theoretical perspective. Drawing on the results of an empirical field study, including interviews with 20 Australian expatriates and 23 Vietnamese host-country nationals, we identify three discrete phases of the relationships: (1) relationship building, (2) reciprocal learning and (3) knowledge co-construction. These stages provide the basis for a theoretical model and propositions that articulate specific communicative practices of both expatriates and host country nationals in developing and maintaining productive knowledge sharing relationships. Central to this is a dynamic process of power renegotiation between expatriates and host-country nationals that goes beyond prescriptive notions of ‘power distance’. Our findings extend current (expatriate-centred) research by showing how effective (two-way) KS relations are constituted through the discursive practices of both HCNs and expatriates in ways that are complementary, mutually reinforcing, and transformational.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of International Management	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1016/j.intman.2017.06.002	en_US
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject.classification	Business & Management	en_US
dc.title	Intercultural Knowledge Sharing Between Expatriates and Host-country Nationals in Vietnam: A Practice-based Study of Communicative Relations and Power Dynamics	en_US
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Abstract:

© 2017 Elsevier Inc. We examine the communicative enabling practices and power dynamics of intercultural knowledge sharing relationships between Australian expatriates and host-country nationals from a practice-based theoretical perspective. Drawing on the results of an empirical field study, including interviews with 20 Australian expatriates and 23 Vietnamese host-country nationals, we identify three discrete phases of the relationships: (1) relationship building, (2) reciprocal learning and (3) knowledge co-construction. These stages provide the basis for a theoretical model and propositions that articulate specific communicative practices of both expatriates and host country nationals in developing and maintaining productive knowledge sharing relationships. Central to this is a dynamic process of power renegotiation between expatriates and host-country nationals that goes beyond prescriptive notions of ‘power distance’. Our findings extend current (expatriate-centred) research by showing how effective (two-way) KS relations are constituted through the discursive practices of both HCNs and expatriates in ways that are complementary, mutually reinforcing, and transformational.

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