Conference Details

Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations across the globe have continued to confront a relentless wave of crises, whether economic (e.g., supply chain disruptions and high inflation), technological (e.g., the rise of artificial intelligence and working in the Metaverse), political (e.g., Russia’s war on Ukraine, United States-China trade war), or natural (e.g., flooding in Libya and Pakistan, earthquakes in Morocco, Syria, and Turkey). Uncertainty prevails regarding the global mobility of all international workers, from expatriates to migrants, and organizations facing significant talent shortages struggle to resume any semblance of normalcy. Following several years of deglobalization, pandemic lockdown, environmental disasters, and war, how can global/local business leaders reengage with a fragmented global workforce across an ever-expanding global workplace? How can we think more proactively and broadly about flexibly meeting the needs for and of a diverse, global workforce? Such challenges come with research opportunities that can potentially advance theory and inform practice.

Accordingly, we would like to invite you to join us at the Centre for Global Human Resource Management, Gothenburg University, Sweden, for the Sixth Global Conference on International Human Resource Management organized by the Center for International Human Resource Studies at Penn State. The conference will feature presentations, discussions, and networking opportunities. We seek academic paper submissions that will broaden our understanding and pave the path for future IHRM research and practice. To this end, we invite submissions that cover conceptual, theoretical, and empirical investigations that adopt a broad range of methodologies and highlight the context-specific nature of HRM decisions, approaches, practices, and systems. Papers that address but are not necessarily restricted to the following topics are especially invited: