Beyond coming home: how common good HRM transforms repatriates into organizational resilience

Organizational resilience increasingly depends on how multinational corporations mobilize internal human resources in the face of global disruption. This study investigates how Common Good Human Resource Management (CG-HRM) practices, which are grounded in an ‘outside-in’ perspective that emphasizes societal purpose, shape the organizational conditions under which repatriates’ international experience contributes to organizational resilience. Drawing on Social Exchange Theory, we examine how CG-HRM is associated with repatriates’ affective commitment and knowledge transfer, and how these micro-level responses relate to organizational resilience. Using a multi-wave, multisource survey design, data were collected from 41 Chinese firms, involving 41 leaders and 229 repatriated employees. This study contributes to the literature on organizational resilience, CG-HRM, and repatriates, and offers practical insights for multinational corporations seeking to strengthen resilience through global repatriate management.