Guest editorialKnowledge sharing and its management in an international work environment: drivers, challenges and consequences

Abstract

[...]as organizations begin to rely on a much broader range of global personnel (Reiche et al., 2019;Shaffer et al., 2012) to tap into opportunities that can yield new organizational learning and other positive outcomes, a vast range of global work categories emerged. [...]international work arrangements do not have to necessarily be connected to physically transcending borders. The onsite-offshore phenomenon of service EMNEs,” authored by Hussain Rammal, Parth Patel, Joao J. Ferreira and Verma Prikshat, examines how emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs) operating in the service sector manage knowledge and team members in their overseas subsidiaries and what role expatriates play in their operations. The findings show that Indian IT firms mostly transfer knowledge from headquarters to subsidiaries in host countries using the onsite-offshore model where work is divided and coordinated between team members situated between the two locations.