This event is part of an IHRM Webinar Series, organized by the Centre for Global Workforce Strategy at Simon Fraser University (Canada), the Center for International Human Resource Studies at the Pennsylvania State University (USA), Pennsylvania Western University (USA), ESCP Business School and RIT Croatia (Europe).

About this event

Time is an essential and classic, yet underdeveloped issue in IHRM studies. However, time has an often long and distinguished pedigree in a number of scientific disciplines such as philosophy, physics, sociology, psychology, and organization studies. They constitute rich sources of inspiration and refreshment for the field of IHRM. From these sources, crucial general anchor points emerge that lead to yardsticks for the degree of time-sensitivity of IHRM research. They point us towards specific routes for enriching our studies with temporal aspects that allow a more comprehensive and in-depth view on the phenomena IHRM is dealing with.

After briefly diagnosing the current situation in terms of time and IHRM studies, this webinar focuses on outlining the general anchor points and specific yardsticks for more time-sensitive IHRM research. It closes with major calls for the field of IHRM to further develop in this area.

Speakers

• Wolfgang Mayrhofer Full Professor and head of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Management and Organizational Behaviour, WU Vienna, Austria.
• This session will be moderated by Marion Festing, Professor of Human Resource Management and Intercultural Leadership at ESCP Business School’s Berlin campus

Date: 23 February 2023.
Time: 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. CEST (Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Zagreb)
More information & registration here. This event will be hosted virtually on Zoom. Event access links will be provided 24 hours prior to the event start.
No fee.
Inquiries: beedie-events@sfu.ca

Previous installments of the IHRM Webinar Series are available online at our YouTube Channel.

This event is part of an IHRM Webinar Series, organized by the Centre for Global Workforce Strategy at Simon Fraser University (Canada), the Center for International Human Resource Studies at the Pennsylvania State University (USA), Pennsylvania Western University (USA), ESCP Business School and RIT Croatia (Europe).

About this event

Increasingly, IHRM scholars are being asked to demonstrate the impact of their research beyond academic networks. In some countries (e.g., U.K., Australia), demonstration of research impact is being introduced as a metric for academic research performance. Research impact is also important for business school accreditation; for example, AACSB International has standards for business schools to demonstrate their contributions to societal needs. For many of us, however, engaging with industry partners, maintaining online social media accounts, and publishing in practitioner-oriented journals, are areas outside our ‚comfort zone‘. This webinar will host a panel of experts whose research is highly impactful. The panel members will share their experiences, insights, and best practices for translating IHRM research for practitioners and broader audiences.

Speakers

• Helen De Cieri (Ph.D.) is a Professor of Management at Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia.
• Betina Szkudlarek (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney Business School.
• Dr. Lauren Locklear (Ph.D.) is a Researcher and Assistant Professor of Management at Texas Tech University in the Rawls College of Business.
• Paula Caligiuri (Ph.D.) is a distinguished Professor of International Business at Northeastern University.
• Sebastian Reiche (Ph.D.) is Professor of People Management at IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain.
• This session will be moderated by Miguel Olivas-Lujan (Ph.D.), Professor of Management and Marketing at Pennsylvania Western University, USA.

Date: 19 October 2022.
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. CEST (Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Zagreb)
More information & free registration here. This event will be hosted virtually on Zoom. Event access links will be provided 24 hours prior to the event start.
Inquiries: beedie-events@sfu.ca

Previous installments of the IHRM Webinar Series are available online at our YouTube Channel.

This event is part of an IHRM Webinar Series, organized by the Centre for Global Workforce Strategy at Simon Fraser University (Canada), the Center for International Human Resource Studies at the Pennsylvania State University (USA), Pennsylvania Western University (USA), ESCP Business School and RIT Croatia (Europe).

About this event

I will argue that IHRM (like business and management studies in general and human resource management studies specifically) has operated from an elitist base: that has not only led to a distortion in our research but has led to some unwanted, negative and even nefarious outcomes. This has been caused by our focus on the interests of owners of businesses (when the vast majority of people are not owners); on large international organizations (when 95% of people work in small local ones); on managers and executives (when 80% of people are neither); on talent management (when 95% of people are not classed as talent); on western organizations (when most of the world does not fit into that category); on employed people (when increasing proportions of workers are outside employment); on indigenous populations (when increasing numbers are migrants); etc. What this means is that we have largely ignored the problems and issues of most people in the world. I will suggest that focusing on the non-elite will avoid contributing further to the negative impact our work has created so far and positively address some of the Grand Challenges that the world is facing.

Speakers

• Chris Brewster is Professor of International Human Resource Management at Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK.
• This session will be moderated by Maja Vidovic, Senior Lecturer of the Faculty of Economics and Business at RIT Croatia.

Date: 15 September 2022.
Time: 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. CEST (Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Zagreb)
More information & free registration here. This event will be hosted virtually on Zoom. Event access links will be provided 24 hours prior to the event start.
Inquiries: beedie-events@sfu.ca

Previous installments of the IHRM Webinar Series are available online at our YouTube Channel.

This webinar series is a partnership between 5 academic institutions – showcasing experts bringing IHRM research & practice together

About this event

Is International Human Resource Management (IHRM) under the resource-based view too relevant to be left to IHRM scholars? How IHRM can (re)gain the scholarly high ground

The resource-based view argues that sustainable competitive advantage derives from developing superior capabilities and resources. For organizations, no other resource is as relevant as human resources – and in times of globalization this implies international human resources. As a consequence, strategy research moved increasingly away from a microeconomics to a behavioral paradigm. This should have implied golden times for (I)HRM scholarship. But was this the case? Probably not. One could gain the impression that international human resources are perceived as simply too relevant to be left to IHRM scholars. After briefly retracing the development of IHRM as a scholarly field, this webinar puts forward suggestions of how to make IHRM scholarship more relevant.

Speakers

• Professor Markus Pudelko is Director of the Department of International Business at Tübingen University School of Business and Economics.
• This session will be moderated by Maral Muratbekova, Professor of the Department of Management, ESCP Business School, Paris, France.

Date: 24 June 2022.
Time: 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. CEST (Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Zagreb)
More information & free registration here. This event will be hosted virtually on Zoom. Event access links will be provided 24 hours prior to the event start.
Inquiries: beedie-events@sfu.ca

Previous installments of the IHRM Webinar Series are available online at our YouTube Channel.

This webinar series is a partnership between 5 academic institutions – showcasing experts bringing IHRM research & practice together

About this event

This webinar is for anyone interested in using ethnography either alone or together with other research methods to build theory on the effects of culture in today’s global and multicultural business contexts. Understanding how culture affects international human resource issues such as global teaming, communication across cultures, language management, work culture integration, strategic talent management, and a multitude of other organizational processes is critical to IB scholarship and practice. Yet, armed with only superficial measures of national cultural differences proliferated by easy-to-use, statistically testable, cultural dimensions offered by aggregate values-based models of culture (e.g., Hofstede, Schwartz, and The Globe study) IB scholars find themselves stereotype rich and operationally poor where culture meets IB context. Such quantitative data give few insights into the challenge of understanding the complex cultural phenomena. The term “culture” is often used synonymously with national culture in the field of IB, yet it is in fact a multi-faceted and complex construct involving the coming together of various spheres of culture including national, regional, institutional, organizational, functional, etc. enacted by individuals on an ongoing basis.

Research settings in international business are therefore rife with multilevel cultural interactions due to diverging cultural assumptions brought together in real time by the merging (often virtually) of individuals (often multicultural themselves) across distance and differentiated contexts. Consequently, traditional positivist approaches to understanding culture fall short of adequately capturing the complexity of cultural phenomena in international organizations. Ethnography with its two essential elements—fieldwork, including its central methodological building block of participant observation, and its focus on culture—is the most effective method for gaining insights into such microlevel embedded cultural phenomena. Drawing from work-in-progress on her new book on ethnography in international business (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press), Professor Brannen will address three distinct analytical modes of ethnographic inquiry relative to IB theorizing building with increasing scope from the most micro level of analysis—that of a single organization—building up to the global strategic context of the multinational corporation.

Speakers

• Mary Yoko Brannen, Honorary Professor at the Copenhagen Business School, Professor Emerita at San José State University and Fellow of the Academy of International Business having served as Deputy Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies for two consecutive elected terms (2011-2016).
• This session will be moderated by Elaine Farndale, Professor of Human Resource Management, Penn State University.

Date: 12 April 2022.
Time: 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. CET (Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Zagreb)
More information & free registration here. This event will be hosted virtually on Zoom. Event access links will be provided 24 hours prior to the event start.
Inquiries: beedie-events@sfu.ca

Previous installments of the IHRM Webinar Series are available online at our YouTube Channel.

This webinar series is a partnership between 5 academic institutions – showcasing experts bringing IHRM research & practice together

About this event
Drawing from their recent reviews of 60 years of research in international and comparative HRM, published in Human Resource Management (2021) and the Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources (2021), Helen De Cieri and Karin Sanders will discuss and raise questions such as: How do we define the field of International and Comparative HRM? What are the three identified research streams within the field? What has been studied within the field of international and comparative HRM, with regard to theoretical frameworks, concepts investigated, and research methods used? Which perspectives have been privileged and which have been ignored, with regard to authors and participants in research? Are there features that are specific to research on international and comparative HRM in the Asia Pacific context? If we view the COVID-19 pandemic as a catalyst for a ‚great re-set‘, how should we re-imagine the field of IHRM? The speakers will discuss such questions and encourage researchers and practitioners to examine challenges and opportunities in IHRM.

Speakers

• Helen De Cieri (Ph.D.), Professor of Management at Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia.
• Karin Sanders (Ph.D.) Professor of Human Resource Management (HRM) and Organizational Behavior at UNSW Business School, UNSW Sydney, Australia.
• This session will be moderated by Marion Festing, Professor of Human Resource Management and Intercultural Leadership, ESCP Business School, Berlin, Germany.

Date: 03 March 2022.
Time: 21:00 p.m. – 22:00 p.m. CET (Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Zagreb)
More information & free registration here. This event will be hosted virtually on Zoom. Event access links will be provided 24 hours prior to the event start.
Inquiries: beedie-events@sfu.ca

Previous installments of the IHRM Webinar Series are available online at our YouTube Channel.