Host country employees’ ethnic identity confirmation: Evidence from interactions with ethnically similar expatriates
研究东道国员工与同族外派人员互动时，族群身份确认（即员工自身与对方对其族群重要性认知的一致程度）如何影响员工对外派人员的信任感和知识分享意愿。
Employing expatriates who share an ethnicity with host country employees (HCEs) is a widespread expatriate selection strategy. However, little research has compared how expatriates and HCEs perceive this shared ethnicity. Drawing upon an identity perspective, we propose HCEs' ethnic identity confirmation, the level of agreement between how an HCE views the importance of his/her own ethnic identity and how expatriates view the importance of the HCE's ethnic identity, affects HCEs' attitudes towards ethnically similar expatriates. Results of two experiments show that HCEs' ethnic identity confirmation is related to HCEs' perception of expatriates' trustworthiness and knowledge-sharing intention.