Current issues in international human resource management include global careers that differ from traditional expatriate assignments. A number of foreign executives have in recent years been appointed to positions in the headquarter operations of culturally distant organisations. These...

Success in human resource management (HRM) depends on the question of whether applied practices of HRM meet specific contingency factors and are appropriately configured. Using this argument, the present article examines HRM in professional service firms (PSFs) in pursuit of three objectives....

Juergen Weibler: Career Expectations – In a Constant State of Flux? / Wolfgang Mayrhofer: Falling for the Change Hype – or: (Career, HR, and OB) Research Should Know Better / Ronald Hartz: ‘Everything must change in order to stay the same’ / Frank Schabel : Managers’ Career...

Zwischen 2008 und 2009 wurde Deutschland vom dramatischsten oekonomischen Schock seit der Grossen Weltwirtschaftskrise 1929 erfasst. Im Gegensatz zu anderen betroffenen Staaten blieb der Arbeitsmarkt weitestgehend entspannt. Dieses Phaenomen bezeichnete Paul Krugman im Herbst 2009 als...

Contemporary career research assumes more flexible career patterns implying increased job mobility. However, there is growing doubt that the proclaimed change is as drastic as has been suggested. We provide empirical evidence on career expectations in Germany between 1999 and 2009, arguing that...

According to the Resource Based View of strategic management, analyzing the human resource of a specific firm in terms of its potential to serve as a source of a sustainable competitive advantage requires an examination of – among others – the resource value. The question of how to...

Die unternehmensinterne Besetzung von Stellen gilt als der Standardfall und wird auch im Bereich des Topmanagements empfohlen. Empirische Untersuchungen zeigen jedoch, dass ein nennenswerter Anteil der Spitzenfuehrungskraefte ueber Unternehmensgrenzen hinweg rekrutiert wird. Dieser Beitrag...

Firms’ international activities require an early identification of potential employees with an intention to work abroad. Based on social cognitive theory the current study examines the influence of prior international exposure and cultural intelligence on the individual intention to work...