Danger and Risk as Challenges for HRM

Benjamin Bader is Deputy Head of Leadership, Work and Organisation Subject Group, and Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Human Resource Management at Newcastle University Business School, UK, and Associate Editor of The International Journal of Human Resource Management. Benjamin’s research focuses on international human resource management, particularly expatriation in dynamic environments, global leadership, the impact of digitalisation on managing people and topics related to the future of work. Tassilo Schuster is Senior Lecturer at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg. His main research interests are in the areas of international management, international human resource management and digitalisation of international companies. He is particularly interested in business strategies focusing on expatriate management, psychological contracts and the future of work.Michael Dickmann is the Full Professor of International Human Resource Management at Cranfield University, School of Management, UK, and the Senior Editor-in-Chief of The International Journal of Human Resource Management. Michael’s research focuses on human resource strategies, structures and processes of multinational organisations, cross-cultural management, international mobility and global careers. He is the lead author/editor of several books on international HRM and global careers.

• ForewordJohn D. Daniels1. Managing people in hostile environments: lessons learned and new grounds in HR researchBenjamin Bader, Tassilo Schuster and Michael Dickmann2. Engaging in duty of care: towards a terrorism preparedness planMichael Harvey, Marina Dabic, Tim Kiessling, Jane Maley and Miriam Moeller3. Protecting expatriates in hostile environments: institutional forces influencing the safety and security practices of internationally active organisationsAnthony Fee, Susan McGrath-Champ and Marco Berti4. In the line of fire: managing expatriates in hostile environmentsJudie Gannon and Alexandros Paraskevas5. Terrorism and expatriate withdrawal cognitions: the differential role of perceived work and non-work constraintsAnna Katharina Bader, Carol Reade and Fabian Jintae Froese6. Mind the gap: the role of HRM in creating, capturing and leveraging rare knowledge in hostile environmentsGabriele Suder, Carol Reade, Monica Riviere, Andreas Birnik and Niklas Nielsen7. A risk management model for research on expatriates in hostile work environmentsRichard A. Posthuma, Jase R. Ramsey, Gabriela L. Flores, Carl Maertz and Rawia O. Ahmed8. Localization of staff in a hostile context: an exploratory investigation in AfghanistanMichael Dickmann, Emma Parry and Nadia Keshavjee