Accessing host country national talent in emerging economies: A resource perspective review and future research agenda

Global work in a rapidly changing world: Implications for MNEs and individuals

“…MNEs have long viewed skills as key to competitive advantage and accessing and controlling skills globally has been a key driver of resource seeking foreign direct investment ( Farndale, Beamond, Corbett-Etchevers & Xu, 2022 ). However, the pace of change of skills means that traditional models of planning for skills acquisition and development and matching skills to an MNE's requirements may be ineffective, and new ways of workforce planning may be required.…”

Positioning context front and center in international human resource management research

“…Institutional theory facilitates the marrying of the notions of organizational and comparative institutionalism, including legitimacy and managerial agency, as some of the articles in this special issue have demonstrated. Going forward, future research could explore how combining theoretical perspectives that focus on the mezzo-level internal operations of organizations (such as the resource-based view of the firm- Peng, 2001) with those that focus on the macro-level external context (such as neo-institutional theory or resource dependency theory- Farndale et al, 2022) could help to uncover new cross-level insights. Similarly, theorizing that simultaneously explores both internal and external contexts (such as co-evolutionary reasoning Lahiri & Kedia, 2011) can focus our attention directly on the interaction effects.…”

The role of university Knowledge Transfer Offices: Not just commercialize research outputs!

“…Por otra parte, la Teoría de Recursos y Capacidades pone de manifiesto que el éxito de las organizaciones depende de prácticas de gestión interna que se alineen con la estrategia corporativa y, a su vez, hagan coincidir las habilidades de los colaboradores con los objetivos de la organización (Farndale et al, 2022;Scullion & Collings, 2011). Algunos estudios recientes critican el enfoque interno de la Teoría de Recursos y Capacidades, y ventajas competitivas: caso de estudio Facultad de Minas y Facultad de Ciencias-Universidad Nacionalenfatizan que algunos recursos pueden estar más allá de los límites de la empresa, por ende, la ventaja competitiva se deriva tanto de los activos internos como externos (Yang et al, 2018).…”