“…Among others, assigning expatriates is one of the strategies that companies apply to resolve the scarceness of employees with high innovative behaviour from the local labour market (Dabic, González‐Loureiro, & Harvey, ; Wong, Tjosvold, & Liu, ). Expatriates provide companies with a broader opportunity to pull global innovative talent and inject a fresh outlook on existing problems (Dabic et al, ; Rose, Ramalu, Uli, & Kumar, ; Varma, Pichler, Budhwar, & Kupferer, ; Vlajčić, Caputo, Marzi, & Dabić, ). Nevertheless, the specific features of expatriate employees' innovative behaviour have rarely been examined (Dabic et al, ; Hammond et al, ).…”