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-Om kunskapsspridning vid repatriering
The purpose of this thesis is to study how organisations are working with repatriation of employees who have been working abroad, especially regarding how their experiences and competences are being utilised and transferred within the company. A qualitative abductive method is used, since the aim is to obtain an understanding of this phenomenon. The main source of information has been 21 interviews. The interviews were executed in two steps; a preliminary study with nine Swedish organisations was followed by our main study, containing 12 interviews with repatriates, their colleagues, and personnel employed at the International Assignment departments at Scania and Volvo. The conclusion of this thesis is that large Swedish companies, which have Swedish employees working abroad do not seem to be working with repatriation according to suggestions given by the theories, even though their performances are better than earlier research implies. This leads to a problem with the transferring of knowledge; and in the cases where knowledge is being spread it is not transformed into learning, especially not into organisational learning. Regarding the companies in our main study, we see that Scania is working more with repatriation than Volvo, and that Scania also seems to have managed to create some organisational learning within the area of International Assignments. We also find that knowledge transfer is facilitated by the usage of comprehensive strategic plans for repatriation and the creation of an open and inquisitive culture in the organisation.