Supplementary file 1_Repatriation, identity, and organisational adaptation: a case study on reverse brain drain and socio-psychological drivers in Turkey’s energy sector.docx

<p>This study examines the post-return experiences of engineers who completed postgraduate education abroad under a state scholarship carrying a service-or-repay bond and returned to a strategic public organisation in Turkey, the Case Company (CC): graduates either serve the institution for twice the funded period or reimburse the full cost of their training. We characterise this arrangement as scholarship-bound return migration and direct attention to what the bond cannot secure: integration after return.

The research focuses on their integration into local work processes, organisational adaptation dynamics, knowledge transfer mechanisms, and institutional logic conflicts. In this context, the research question of the study has been formulated as follows: How do the socio-psychological experiences of scholarship-funded engineers evolve after their return, as they adapt to their home organisation and its competing institutional logics?