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2024

  • Tasli‐Karabulut, V., & Sancak, M. (2024). Vocational education and training: A pathway for refugees' integration in the labour market? Lessons from Syrian refugees in Tarsus, Turkey. Industrial Relations Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12442 (open access)

2023

  • Bešić, A., & Aigner, P. (2023). Action, Reaction and Resignation: How Refugee Women and Support Organisations Respond to Labour Market Integration Challenges during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Journal of International Management, 29(3), 101031. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intman.2023.101031

  • Bolzani, D. (2023). Assisted to leave and become entrepreneurs: Entrepreneurial investment by assisted returnee migrants. Academy of Management Discoveries, 9(2), 261-279. https://doi.org/10.5465/amd.2020.0179

  • Farashah, A., Blomquist, T., Al Ariss, A., & Guo, G. C. (2023). Perceived employability of skilled migrants: a systematic review and future research agenda. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 34(3), 478-528. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2022.2099226

  • Groutsis, D., Vassilopoulou, J., Ozbilgin, M., Fujimoto, Y., & Mor Barak, M. (2023). FROM THE EDITORS—Migration Management: Introduction and Overview. Academy of Management Discoveries, 9(2), 117-124. https://doi.org/10.5465/amd.2023.0115

  • Hajro, A., Žilinskaitė, M., Gibson, C. B., Baldassari, P., Mayrhofer, W., Brewster, C., & Brannen, M. Y. (2023). Movement of people across borders: Transdisciplinary research to meet the challenges in migration, business, and society. Academy of Management Discoveries, 9(2), 125-131. https://doi.org/10.5465/amd.2022.0058

  • Knappert, L., Ortlieb, R., Kornau, A., Maletzky, M., & van Dijk, H. (2023). The ecosystem of managing refugee employment: Complementarity and its microfoundations. Academy of Management Discoveries. https://doi.org/10.5465/amd.2020.0157

  • Kodeih, F., Schildt, H., & Lawrence, T. B. (2023). Countering Indeterminate Temporariness: Sheltering work in refugee camps. Organization Studies, 44(2), 175–199. https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406221116600

  • Marinoni, A. (2023). Immigration and entrepreneurship: The role of enclaves. Management Science. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.4776

  • Nguyen, A., & Andresen, M. (2023). “A laugh a day keeps the failure away”: The role of self-enhancing humor and host country community embeddedness in career satisfaction of dual-earner expatriate couples. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1125136. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1125136

  • Ortega‐Jiménez, D., Alvarado, L., Trillo, A., & Bretones, F. D. (2023). Processes of Discrimination and Humiliation Experienced by Ecuadorian Immigrant Workers in Spain. Social Inclusion, 11(2), 48-58. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v11i2.6352

  • Ortlieb, R., & Knappert, L. (2023). Labor market integration of refugees: An institutional country-comparative perspective. Journal of International Management, 29(2), 101016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intman.2023.101016

  • Pesch, R., Ipek, E., & Fitzsimmons, S. (2023). Be a hero: Employ refugees like a pragmatist. Organizational Dynamics, (52),1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orgdyn.2022.100912

  • Pesch, R., & Ipek, E. (2023). Understanding of refugees in management studies and implications for future research on workplace integration. European Management Review. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/emre.12593

  • Soliman, S., Keles, J. Y., & Fottouh, N. (2023). Refugee entrepreneurship and institutional voids: The case of Syrian refugee entrepreneurs in Egypt. Academy of Management Discoveries. https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amd.2020.0200

  • Suarez-Bilbao, B., Andresen, M., Crowley-Henry, M., & O'Connor, E. P. (2023). The influence of complexity, chance and change on the career crafting strategies of SIEs. Career Development International. https://doi.org/10.1108/CDI-06-2022-0137

  • Theunissen, A., & Van Laer, K. (2023). Exploring the politics of linguistic difference: the construction of language requirements for migrants in jobs traditionally conducted by local native speakers. Culture and Organization, 29(3), 211-225. https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2023.2170375

  • Usanova, K., Zikic, J., & Vaiman, V. (2023). Being an “outsider in”: skilled migrants' career strategies in local organizations. Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriate Management Research. https://doi.org/10.1108/JGM-09-2022-0051

  • Van Laer, K., & Essers, C. (2023). The Regulation of Religion by Secular Work Practice: Exploring Muslim Employees’ Performance of Religious Practice. Journal of Management, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063231161344

  • Woodhams, C., Fernando, D., Huo, Y., & Dente, G. (2023). Exploring the interplay between pay, career barriers, and management support: An intersectional study of migrant doctors. Academy of Management Discoveries, 9(2), 238-260. https://doi.org/10.5465/amd.2020.0174

  • Zikic, J., & Voloshyna, V. (2023). Untangling Space and Career Action: Migrant Career Recontextualization in the Host City. Academy of Management Discoveries.https://doi.org/10.5465/amd.2020.0156

2022

  • Andresen, M., Lazarova, M., Apospori, E., Cotton, R., Bosak, J., Dickmann, M., Kaše, R., & Smale, A. (2022). Does international work experience pay off? The relationship between international work experience, employability and career success: A 30 country, multi-industry study. Human Resource Management Journal, 32(3), 698-721. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12423 (Open access) 

  • Bešić, A., Fóti, K. & Vasileva, V. (2022) The role and challenges of public service organisations in the labour market integration of refugees: A relational perspective analysing integration measures in Austria, Finland, Germany and Sweden. European Management Review, 1– 15. https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12504

  • Biswas, T., Mäkelä, L., & Andresen, M. (2022). Work and non-work related antecedents of expatriates’ well-being: A meta-analysis. Human Resource Management Review, 32(3), 100889. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2021.100889 (Open Access) 

  • Bretones, F., & Jáimez, M. (2022). Spanish adaptation and validation of the Psychological Empowerment Scale. INTERDISCIPLINARIA, 39(1), 195-210.

  • Hajro, A., Brewster, C., Haak-Saheem, W., & Morley, M. J. (2022). Global migration: Implications for international business scholarship. Journal of International Business Studies, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-022-00565-z

  • Hajro, A., Zilinskaite, M. & Baldassari, P. (2022). Addressing the elephant in the room: Global migration and its implications for business school teaching. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 21(1), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2020.0260

  • Kleinhempel, J., Klasing, M. J., & Beugelsdijk, S. (2022). Cultural roots of entrepreneurship: Evidence from second-generation immigrants. Organization Science. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2022.1645

  • Langinier, H., Pereira Pündrich, A., & Al Ariss, A. (2022). All that she wants: the role of cultural gender norms, career and family for professional migrant women in the Big Four. Revue de gestion des ressources humaines, (4), 20-40. https://doi.org/10.3917/grhu.126.0020

  • Oleškevičiūtė, E., Dickmann, M., Andresen, M., & Parry, E. (2022). The international transfer of individual career capital: exploring and developing a model of the underlying factors. Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriate Management Research, 10(3), 392-415. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JGM-12-2020-0082/full/html

  • Ortlieb, R., & Ressi, E. (2022). From refugee to manager? Organisational socialisation practices, refugees' experiences and polyrhythmic socialisation. European Management Review, 19(2), 185-206.. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/emre.12500

  • Risberg, A. & Romani, L. (2022). Underemploying highly skilled migrants: An organizational logic protecting corporate ‘normality’. Human Relations, 75:4, pp. 655-680. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726721992854

  • Suolinga, S. (2022). The Foreign Migrant Workers in the Internationalization Process of Japanese SMEs: a multiple-case study. 国際ビジネス研究= Journal of international business/国際ビジネス研究学会 編, 14(1), 1-23. https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1520011401060476288

 2021

  • Alvarado, L. E., Bretones, F. D., & Rodríguez, J. A. (2021). The effort-reward model and its effect on burnout among nurses in Ecuador. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 760570. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.760570

  • Bešić, A., Diedrich, A. & Aigner, P. Organising labour market integration support for refugees in Austria and Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic. (2021). Comparative Migration Studies 9(48). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-021-00264-y

  • Cai, H., Meng, Y., & Chakraborty, S. (2021). Migrants and exports: Decomposing the link. Journal of World Business, 56(2), 101166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2020.101109

  • Crowley-Henry, M., O'Connor, E.P. and Suarez-Bilbao, B. (2021). What goes around comes around. Exploring how skilled migrant founder–managers of SMEs recruit and retain international talent. Journal of Global Mobility, 9(2), 145-165. https://doi.org/10.1108/JGM-01-2021-0003

  • de Zegher, J. F., Liu, B., Rende T. & Taylor, M. Low-skilled labor shortages contribute to forced labor - Evidence from Myanmar and Thailand (August 4, 2021). Working Paper, available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3899489

  • Dwertmann, D. J. G. & Kunze, F. (2021). More Than Meets the Eye: The Role of Immigration Background for Social Identity Effects. Journal of Management, 47 (8), 2074–2104. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206320929080.

  • Hajro, A., Caprar, D. V., Zikic, J., & Stahl, G. K. (2021). Global migrants: Understanding the implications for international business and management. Journal of World Business, 56(2), 101192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2021.101192

  • Klein, J. & Amis, J. M. (2021). The Dynamics of Framing: Image, Emotion, and the European Migration Crisis. Academy of Management Journal, 64(5), 1324–1354. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2017.0510

  • Knappert, L., Van Dijk, H., Yuan, S., Engel, Y., van Prooijen, J. W., & Krouwel, A. (2021). Personal contact with refugees is key to welcoming them: An analysis of politicians' and citizens' attitudes towards refugee integration. Political Psychology, 42(3), 423-442. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12705

  • Lee, E. S., & Szkudlarek, B. (2021). Refugee employment support: The HRM–CSR nexus and stakeholder co‐dependency. Human Resource Management Journal, 31(4), 936-955. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12352

  • Lehtovaara, H., & Jyrkinen, M. (2021). Skilled Migrant Women’s Experiences of the Job Search Process. Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 11(S7). https://doi.org/10.18291/njwls.128588

  • Nardon, L., Zhang, H., Szkudlarek, B., & Gulanowski, D. (2021). Identity work in refugee workforce integration: The role of newcomer support organizations. Human Relations, 74(12), 1994-2020. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726720949630

  • Ortlieb, R., Glauninger, E., & Weiss, S. (2021). Organizational inclusion and identity regulation: How inclusive organizations form ‘Good’,‘Glorious’ and ‘Grateful’refugees. Organization, 28(2), 266-288.. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1350508420973319

  • Piteli, E. E., Kafouros, M., & Pitelis, C. N. (2021). Follow the people and the money: Effects of inward FDI on migrant remittances and the contingent role of new firm creation and institutional infrastructure in emerging economies. Journal of World Business, 56(2), 101178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2020.101109

  • Szkudlarek, B., Nardon, L., & Toh, S. M. (2021). A temporal perspective on refugee employment–Advancing HRM theory and practice. Human Resource Management Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12418

  • Szkudlarek, B., Nardon, L., Osland, J. S., Adler, N. J., & Lee, E. S. (2021). When context matters: What happens to international theory when researchers study refugees. Academy of Management Perspectives, 35(3), 461-484. https://doi.org/10.5465/amp.2018.0150

  • van Dijk, H., Knappert, L., Muis, Q., & Alkhaled, S. (2022). Roomies for life? An assessment of how staying with a local facilitates refugee integration. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 20(3), 321-335. https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2021.1923879

  • Vandor, P. (2021). Are voluntary international migrants self-selected for entrepreneurship? An analysis of entrepreneurial personality traits. Journal of World Business, 56(2), 101142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2020.101109

  • Zikic, J., & Klehe, U. C. (2021). Going against the grain: The role of skilled migrants' self‐regulation in finding quality employment. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 42(8), 1023-1041.. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/job.2550

2020

  • Aragón, R. R. & Bretones, F. D. (2020). Uncertainties Generated during the Brexit Process among Highly Qualified Spanish Workers. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 172, 3-20. https://doi:10.5477/cis/reis.172.3

  • Bretones, F. D., Jain, A, Leka, S. & García, P. A. (2020). Psychosocial working conditions and wellbeing of migrant workers in Spain. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17, 2547; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072547 (Open Access)

  • Christensen, L. J., Newman, A. B., Herrick, H., & Godfrey, P. (2020). Separate but not equal: Toward a nomological net for migrants and migrant entrepreneurship. Journal of International Business Policy, 3, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1057/s42214-019-00041-w

  • Dheer, R. J., & Lenartowicz, T. (2020). Effect of generational status on immigrants’ intentions to start new ventures: The role of cognitions. Journal of World Business, 55(3), 101069. https://doi.org/10.5465/amd.2020.0174

  • Fernando, D., & Patriotta, G. (2020). “Us versus them”: Sensemaking and identity processes in skilled migrants’ experiences of occupational downgrading. Journal of World Business, 55(4), 101109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2020.101109

  • Fitzsimmons, S., Baggs, J. & Brannen, M. Y. (2020). Intersectional arithmetic: How gender, race and mother tongue combine to impact immigrants’ work outcomes. Journal of World Business, 55 (101013). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2019.101013

  • Hoffmann, R., Dimitrova, A., Muttarak, R., Crespo Cuaresma, J., & Peisker, J. (2020). A meta-analysis of country-level studies on environmental change and migration. Nature Climate Change, 10(10), 904-912. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0898-6

  • Lee, E. S., Szkudlarek, B., Nguyen, D. C. & Nardon, L. (2020). Unveiling the Canvas Ceiling: A multidisciplinary literature review of refugee employment and workforce integration. International Journal of Management Reviews,22 (2), 193–216. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12222

  • Liu, Y., Namatovu, R., Karadeniz, E. E., Schøtt, T., & Minto-Coy, I. D. (2020) Entrepreneurs’ transnational networks channeling exports: diasporas from Central & South America, Sub-Sahara Africa, Middle East & North Africa, Asia, and the European culture region. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46(10), 2106–2125. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1560002

  • Knappert, L., van Dijk, H., & Ross, V. (2020). Refugees’ inclusion at work: a qualitative cross-level analysis. Career Development International, 25(1), 32-48. https://doi.org/10.1108/CDI-01-2018-0021

  • O’Connor, E. & Crowley-Henry M. (2020). From home to host: The instrumental kaleidoscopic careers of skilled migrants. Human Relations, 73 (2), 262–287. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726719828452

2019

  • Barnard, H., Deeds, D., Mudambi, R., & Vaaler, P. M. (2019). Migrants, migration policies, and international business research: Current trends and new directions. Journal of International Business Policy, 2, 275-288. https://doi.org/10.1057/s42214-019-00041-w

  • Emmanuel, N. D., Elo, M., & Piekkari, R. (2019). Human stickiness as a counterforce to brain drain: Purpose-driven behaviour among Tanzanian medical doctors and implications for policy. Journal of international business policy, 2, 314-332. https://doi.org/10.1057/s42214-019-00036-7

  • Goethals, S. (2019). Exploring Migrant Employees’ ‘Rights-Talk’ in the British Hospitality Sector. Business and Human Rights Journal, 4(2), 287-315. https://doi.org/10.1017/bhj.2019.4

  • Horak, S., Farndale, E., Brannen, M. Y. & Collings, D. G. (2019). International human resource management in an era of political nationalism. Thunderbird International Business Review, 61(3), 471–480. https://doi.org/10.1002/tie.21959

  • Kunczer, V., Lindner, T., & Puck, J. (2019). Benefitting from immigration: The value of immigrants’ country knowledge for firm internationalization. Journal of International Business Policy, 2, 356-375. https://doi.org/10.1057/s42214-019-00034-9

  • Reade, C., McKenna, M. & Oetzel, J. (2019). The role of MNEs in reducing migration push factors and promoting peace: A strategic HRM perspective. Journal of International Business Policy, 2(4), 377–396. https://doi.org/10.1057/s42214-019-00043-8 [Springer SharedIt link to article: https://rdcu.be/cm4YY]

  • Reade, C., McKenna, M., & Oetzel, J. (2019). Unmanaged migration and the role of MNEs in reducing push factors and promoting peace: A strategic HRM perspective. Journal of International Business Policy, 2, 377-396. https://doi.org/10.1057/s42214-019-00043-8

  • Romani, L., Holck, L., & Risberg, A. (2019). Benevolent discrimination: Explaining how human resources professionals can be blind to the harm of diversity initiatives. Organization, 26(3), 371-390. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508418812585

  • Szkudlarek, B., Nardon, L., Osland, J. S., Adler, N. J., & Lee, E. S. (2021). When context matters: What happens to international theory when researchers study refugees. Academy of Management Perspectives, 35(3), 461-484. https://doi.org/10.5465/amp.2018.0150

  • Vera, K., Lindner, T., & Jonas, P. (2019). Correction to: Benefitting from immigration: The value of immigrants’ country knowledge for firm internationalization. Journal of International Business Policy, 2(4), 376-376. https://doi.org/10.1057/s42214-019-00034-9

2018

  • Kornberger, M., Leixnering, S., Meyer, R. E. & Höllerer, M. A. (2018). Rethinking the Sharing Economy: The Nature and Organization of Sharing in the 2015 Refugee Crisis. Academy of Management Discoveries, 4, 314–335. https://doi.org/10.5465/amd.2016.0138

  • Knappert, L., Kornau, A., & Figengül, M. (2018). Refugees' exclusion at work and the intersection with gender: Insights from the Turkish-Syrian border. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 105, 62-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2017.11.002

  • Vora, D., Martin, L., Fitzsimmons, S., Pekerti, A. A., Lakshman, C. & Raheem, S. (2018). Multiculturalism within individuals: A review, critique, and agenda for future research. Journal of International Business Studies, 50, 499–524. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-018-0191-3

  • Wherle, K., Klehe, U., Kira, M. & Zikic, J. (2018). Can I come as I am? Identity threats, coping and growth among refugees, Journal of Vocational Behavior. 105, 83–101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2017.10.010

2017

  • Goethals, S., Bardwell, J., Bhacker, M., & Ezzelarab, B. (2017). Business Human Rights Responsibility for Refugees and Migrant Workers: Turning Policies into Practice in the Middle East. Business and Human Rights Journal, 2(2), 335-342. https://doi.org/10.1017/bhj.2017.11

2016

  • Vandor, P., & Franke, N. (2016). See Paris and… found a business? The impact of cross-cultural experience on opportunity recognition capabilities. Journal of Business Venturing, 31(4), 388–407. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2016.03.003

  • Zikic, J. & Richardson, J. (2016). What happens when you can’t be who you are: Professional identity at the institutional periphery. Human Relations, 69(1), 139–168. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726715580865

2015

  • Zikic, J. (2015). Skilled Migrants’ Career Capital as a Source of Competitive Advantage: Implications for Strategic HRM. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 26:10, 1360–1381. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2014.981199

2014

  • Cao, L., Hirschi, A., & Deller, J. (2014). Perceived organizational support and intention to stay in host countries among self-initiated expatriates: The role of career satisfaction and networks. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 25(14), 2013-2032. doi: 10.1080/09585192.2013.870290

2013