Reciprocal knowledge sharing: exploring professional–cultural knowledge sharing between expatriates and local nurses

Purpose This study aims to explore how professional–cultural knowledge is reciprocally shared between experienced expatriates and novice local nurses. To address this, the situated learning in practice lens combined with social exchange lens. Design/methodology/approach An interpretive case methodology enabled an exploratory approach into knowledge-sharing practices nurses Saudi Arabia. Findings Insights gained fieldwork suggest that sharing (KS) often occurred through three primary practices, namely, developing a meaning, forming clinical competency development opportunities intervening unfamiliar situations. In addition, two micro-level conditions shaped reciprocity of KS expatriate nurses, which were individual differences situational conditions. Originality/value advances improves understanding intertwined but rarely studied aspects practices. The sought rich insights individuals individuals.