International Talent Management in Times of Crisis

Edited by Shahamak Rezaei, PhD, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark

• ContentsForeword: The winner takes it all … not xiiMarco Goli1 Contribution to the study of international talent management 1Shahamak Rezaei and Mikkel Rønnow Mouritzen2 Thousand Talents, revisited: research funding as a talentrecruitment tool from Europe to China 7Andrea Braun Střelcová3 Intra-company transfers: a European perspective 36Axel Fredholm, Annika Elwert and Johan Sandberg4 Talent waste: when immigration fails to enhanceimmigrant enclave economy formation 50Osa-Godwin Osaghae and Thomas Cooney5 Unexpected talent flows in the context of Russia’s waron Ukraine: missed opportunities in Georgia and Turkey(2022–2023) 69Karina Goulordava and Martin Geiger6 Sweden in the quest for global talent 86Johan Sandberg and Axel Fredholm7 Global science networks in times of crisis 100Maj Grasten, Stine Haakonsson and Duncan Wigan8 China’s overseas investment impact and the rise of ESG practices 119Wen Xiang9 Synthesizing key insights in international talentmanagement: expatalent as a new promising path of research 136Ricard Zapata-Barrero and Shahamak Rezaei

‘International competition for the most skilled engineering and science talent has been a persistent undercurrent of world capitalism since at least the Renaissance. It contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union and the frustration of Margaret Thatcher’s economic agenda for Britain. Once Asia was an exporter of scientific talent; now that Asia has become an importer too, the international stakes have gone way up. As this interesting and timely collection makes clear, what was once prudent economic policy has now become imperative for countries that hope to stand in the forefront of economic development.’