B. Sebastian Reiche

TL;DR: The authors develop a new definition of an innovation outcome based on knowledge elements that lays the groundwork for more comprehensive methods of measuring innovation and innovativeness, which is particularly useful for the study of service innovation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conceptualize international assignees as informational boundary spanners between multinational enterprise units, and develop a cross-level model that explores how assignees' social capital translates into inter-unit intellectual capital.

TL;DR: The lack of a precise, rigorous and commonly accepted definition of global leadership limits the field's conceptual and empirical progress as discussed by the authors, and the lack of such a definition limits the potential for research and practice.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between different categories of international assignees and knowledge transfer in multinational corporations and found that expatriate presence in different functional areas is related to knowledge transfer from and to headquarters in these functions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors integrate social resources theory and social exchange theory arguments to examine the knowledge benefits that international assignees' host-unit social capital entails upon repatriation, and they hypothesize that assignees" host unit social capital, operationalized as their number of work group contacts and their proportion of trusted ties at the host unit, positively relates to two specific knowledge benefits upon return.