Talent Management in Global Organizations

Talent Management in Global

Organizations

Edited by Marina Latukha

PALGRAVE STUDIES OF

INTERNATIONALIZATION

IN EMERGING MARKETS

A Cross-Country Perspective

Palgrave Studies of Internationalization in

Emerging Markets

Series Editors

Marin Marinov

Aalborg University

Aalborg, Denmark

Svetla Marinova

Aalborg University

Aalborg, Denmark

Emerging market nations such as Russia, Brazil, China, South Africa and

India as well as Eastern European territories, are in the process of changes

and growth that require specific study and attention. The international

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Markets will encompass a multiplicity of topics. Examining the new

ways in which firms from emerging economies develop and implement

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entrepreneurship, operations and regional specifics of internationaliza￾tion. Looking closer at the specifics underlying the development of

emerging market nations and their firms, this series aims to shed light on

the current and future issues associated with the challenges and opportu￾nities offered by the varying contexts of emerging markets.

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Marina Latukha

Editor

Talent Management

in Global

Organizations

A Cross-Country Perspective

Palgrave Studies of Internationalization in Emerging Markets

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Editor

Marina Latukha

Graduate School of Management

St. Petersburg State University

St. Petersburg, Russia

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This book, Talent Management in Global Organizations: A Cross-Country

Perspective, is the collective work presenting our accumulative knowledge

born from many discussions, reflections, inspirations and observations.

Being part of an international team of researchers, I know that the global

environment is the platform for our collaboration, driving our research

possibilities and opportunities in this global world.

Several contributions made in this book were supported by St. Petersburg

State University, Graduate School of Management. Within the project,

aiming to study the influence of talent management practices on a com￾pany’s absorptive capacity in modern economic conditions in Brazil,

Russia, India and China (Project ID 16.23.1456.2017), Chapters 3, 4, 11

and 12 were developed. Research presented in Chapter 16 has been con￾ducted also with financial support from St. Petersburg State University,

Graduate School of Management (Project ID 16.23.1457.2017).

The Central and Eastern European International Research Team

(CEEIRT) composed of researchers from different universities from the

Central and Eastern European Region—has begun a long-term research

project investigating the transition of human resource management prac￾tices and its roles in multinational organizations’ subsidiaries, as these chal￾lenges occur in the countries of the region. Chapter 9 reflects the results of

CEEIRT surveys and my appreciation goes to the support we obtained from

distinguished Eastern European colleagues who took part in this research.

Acknowledgment

vi Acknowledgment

I would like also to acknowledge the opportunity to belong to the

Center for the Study of Emerging Markets and Russian Multinational

Enterprises, where lots of insights and fruitful ideas were gained, and

extend my gratitude to colleagues who co-authored this book.

Finally, I express my appreciation to Svetla Marinova, who helped in

the editing and contributed her efforts and assistance during the prepara￾tion of this book.

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Part I Talent Management in the Asia-Pacific Region 1

1 Talent Management in a Global Environment: New

Challenges for Regions, Firms and Managers 3

Marina Latukha

2 Talent Management in the Asia-Pacific: A Story of

Cultural Diversity 9

Anna Veselova and Liudmila Veselova

3 China: Managing the Global Talent Market 15

Anna Veselova and Liudmila Veselova

4 India: Growth Embedded in Tradition 41

Anna Veselova and Liudmila Veselova

5 Korea: Culture and Reality 63

Anna Veselova and Liudmila Veselova

Contents

viii Contents

Part II Talent Management in Central and Eastern Europe 87

6 Talent Management in Central and Eastern Europe:

Similarities and Differences 89

Victoria Tikhonova, József Poór, János Fehér, and Valeria

Dvornikova

7 Poland: How to Become a Leader 95

Victoria Tikhonova

8 Czech Republic: Making Differences Important 119

Victoria Tikhonova and Valeria Dvornikova

9 Hungary: Creating New Opportunities for Talent 143

József Poór, János Fehér, and Victoria Tikhonova

Part III The Commonwealth of Independent States: Soviet

Heritage in Action 167

10 CIS: Soviet Heritage in Action 169

Louisa Selivanovskikh

11 Kazakhstan: Leaving the Past Behind 175

Louisa Selivanovskikh

12 Belarus: Moving Forward 207

Louisa Selivanovskikh

13 Ukraine: Challenges for Further Development 237

Louisa Selivanovskikh

Contents ix

Part IV Talent Management in Latin America 267

14 Latin America: Talent Management in the New Reality 269

Maria Laura MacLennan, Gabriel Vouga Chueke, Andrei

Panibratov, Svetla Marinova, and Daria Klishevich

15 Brazil: Catching Up and Moving Forward 277

Maria Laura MacLennan and Gabriel Vouga Chueke

16 Argentina: Learning to Tango with Talent Management 299

Svetla Marinova and Daria Klishevich

17 Chile: Terra Incognita 321

Andrei Panibratov, Maria Laura MacLennan, and Gabriel

Vouga Chueke

18 Creating a Talent Management Agenda for a Global

Environment 343

Marina Latukha, Anna Veselova, Liudmila Veselova, József Poór,

János Fehér, Victoria Tikhonova, Louisa Selivanovskikh, Maria

Laura MacLennan, Gabriel Vouga Chueke, Svetla Marinova,

Andrei Panibratov, and Daria Klishevich

Index 351

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Valeria Dvornikova is a doctoral student at the Organizational Behavior and

Human Resource Management Department of the Graduate School of

Management in St. Petersburg State University, Russia. She holds Master’s

degree in management from St. Petersburg State University’s Graduate School of

Management. She is a graduate of Vienna University of Economics and Business

and ESC Rennes Business School. Dvornikova’s research interests focus on tal￾ent management and talent migration in emerging markets.

János Fehér is Associate Professor and Academic Director of Human Resources

at the BA Program of Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in

Hungary, with the Institute of Economics and Management, and a Private

Professor at Szent István University in Gödöllő, Hungary. His earlier positions

include Associate Professor and Department Head at Szent István University,

Associate Professor and Program Director at IMC/International Management

Center in Budapest, and Visiting Associate Professor at Temple University

Philadelphia, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland (Budapest Campus),

and Budapest Corvinus University. His teaching areas are Management, Human

Resource Management and Organizational Behavior. He has been a Consultant

for and Program Developer, Director and Instructor of Upper Level Management

Programs in leading Hungarian and international companies.

Daria Klishevich is a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Management

of St. Petersburg State University, Russia. She is also Research Assistant at the

Notes on Contributors

xii Notes on Contributors

Centre for the Study of Emerging Markets and Russian Multinational Enterprises

at GSOM. Klishevich holds Master’s degree in sociology and European Studies

from St. Petersburg State University and Universität Bielefeld (Germany).

Klishevich’s research interests focus on international business, cross-cultural

analysis, emerging multinationals and non-market strategies of companies.

Marina Latukha is Doctor of Science and Associate Professor of Organizational

Behaviour and Human Resources Management at the Graduate School of

Management, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. She is also the lead

researcher at the Centre for the Study of Emerging Market and Russian

Multinational Enterprises. Latukha holds a PhD and doctoral degree in man￾agement from St. Petersburg State University, GSOM, and also has graduated

from several postdoctoral programs in leading European and American business

schools (the Harvard Business School, the Haas School of Business, the London

Business School and the HEC School of Business). She is the author of a num￾ber of case studies (more than 30) and academic articles published in top-ranked

academic journals (more than 50), such as Human Resource Management, The

International Journal of Human Resource Management, Thunderbird International

Business Review and European Management Journal. Lathuka’s research interests

and teaching areas focus on international and strategic human resource manage￾ment, talent management and emerging multinationals.

Maria Laura MacLennan is Adjunct Professor in Business Studies at Centro

Universitario FEI in Brazil. She holds a PhD in Business Studies from the

University of Sao Paulo, where she conducted research on international HRM

and strategy. She is an active member of the Academy of International Business

and the European Academy of International Business. Her main research inter￾est is in interdisciplinary studies bounding HRM and strategy.

Svetla  Marinova is Professor of International Business and Marketing at

Aalborg University in Denmark. She is expert on the transition and post￾transition development of Central and Eastern European economies with a spe￾cial interest in business restructuring, transformation and emergence. Her

research covers generic business growth and foreign direct investments as means

for promoting new business models and innovation that can foster firm-level

international competitiveness. Publications include nine books and more than

100 academic papers on internationalization of emerging economies and firms,

the role of contextual combinations in this process, and the interplay between

institutional and business entrepreneurship in promoting outward foreign direct

investments. Marinova is a proponent of targeted integration of research and

Notes on Contributors xiii

innovation with education, institutional support and business initiative, that

could enable emerging economies remodel their competitive position in the

world.

Andrei Panibratov is Professor of Strategic and International Management at

the Graduate School of Management, and the Head of the Center for the Study

of Emerging Markets and Russian Multinational Enterprises at St. Petersburg

State University, Russia. His research interests and lecturing area focus on inter￾nationalization of emerging market firms, outward FDI from emerging econo￾mies, and Russian multinationals. He has participated in consulting and research

projects in a number of international and Russian organizations, universities

and companies. Panibratov is the author/co-author of several books, series of

case studies, and articles published in Russia and abroad.

József Poór is Professor of Management at Szent István University in Hungary,

where he teaches a variety of management courses. He is also Professor of

Management at J.  Selye University Komarno (Slovakia). He served as Guest

Professor at five US universities and taught 14 short summer semesters. He was

Senior Manager at different internationally recognized professional service firms

(Mercer, HayGroup and Diebold) and at the International Management Center

in Budapest. His scholarly publications have appeared in more than 10 interna￾tionally referred journals. He has authored and co-authored books and book

chapters in Hungarian, English and Romanian.

Louisa Selivanovskikh is a doctoral student of the Organizational Behavior

and Human Resource Management Department of the Graduate School of

Management and a research assistant at the Centre for the Study of Emerging

Markets and Russian MNEs, St. Petersburg University, Russia. Her research

interests lie in the area of strategic human resource management, knowledge

management and emerging markets. Selivanovskikh has had several publications

in international and Russian journals, including Journal of East-West Business

and Russian Management Journal. Selivanovskikh is also a member of the

Academy of International Business (AIB) and the European International

Business Academy (EIBA).

Victoria  Tikhonova is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the

Graduate School of Management of St. Petersburg State University in Russia.

She is writing her PhD at Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland.

Tikhonova is a graduate of the dual diploma Master’s Program in Technology

and Innovation Management at St. Petersburg State University, GSOM and

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Lappeenranta University of Technology. Tikhonova’s academic interests focus on

international human resource management and career research.

Anna Veselova is Senior Lecturer at the Operations Management Department

of the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University, Russia.

She is also a researcher at the Centre for the Study of Emerging Markets and

Russian Multinational Enterprises. Veselova has publications in international

academic journals (e.g. International Journal of Emerging Markets). Veselova is

a member of the Academy of International Business (AIB), the European

International Business Academy (EIBA) and the European Association of

Chinese Studies (EACS). Veselova’s research interests focus on the international

activities of emerging market firms, interrelations between firm’s strategic and

structural characteristics, context-related specificities of human resource man￾agement, among others.

Liudmila Veselova is Senior Lecturer at the European Studies Department of

the School of International Relations at St. Petersburg State University. She is

also a member of the working group of the Center for Chinese Studies (Russia)

and the European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS). Her areas of interest

include the modern history of China, Chinese social policy, the middle class in

China, Sino-Russian relations, competitive advantages of the Chinese compa￾nies and talent management in China. Veselova is involved in both teaching and

research; she has conducted research at Peking University, the Free University of

Berlin, University of Turku and Wuhan Normal University. Her research has

been published in Russian and international academic journals.

Gabriel  Vouga  Chueke is the founder of the Photo-Gabriel Brazilian

Multinationals Observatory, a research center engaged in generating and dis￾seminating knowledge about Brazilian FDI worldwide. Vouga Chueke holds

Master’s degree in International Management from ESPM in Brazil and will

receive his PhD in business from the University of Sao Paulo. Vouga Chueke was

an MBA exchange student at the University of Chicago, and he is a Global

Mindset Facilitator through the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Vouga Chueke is a member of the Academy of International Business (AIB) and

the European International Business Academy (EIBA). His research interests

include emerging market multinationals, host-country institutional environ￾ment and entry mode strategy. He was Assistant Editor of the Review of

International Business published by ESPM, and he is Professor in the same

school. Vouga Chueke has acted as consultant to the Brazilian government, the

Switzerland Chamber of Commerce in Brazil and others.

Part I

Talent Management in the

Asia-Pacific Region