In developed markets, Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises' (EMNEs) organizational attractiveness may crucially depend on applicants' country and corporate character images. Applying image and signaling theory, this study compares the influence of these images on the organizational attractiveness of Chinese, Russian, and US companies in Germany. Employing data from 287 German business students, findings show that applicants prefer US over Chinese and Russian companies as future employers, confirming the existence of the liability of emergingness. Moreover, findings indicate gender differences in applicants' attraction towards EMNEs. In particular, female applicants are less attracted to EMNEs with a bad corporate character image than male applicants are.
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