Global Talent Management and Corporate Entrepreneurship Strategy

Abstract

Purpose

The aim of this chapter is to focus on the role human capital, innovative recruitment practices and cross-cultural staffing policies have on organizational performance. This facilitates a better understanding about how entrepreneurial thinking is encompassed into an organizational context by utilizing global talent management practices.

Methodology/approach

The chapter discusses the linkage between global talent management and corporate entrepreneurship literature by providing a number of research propositions.

Findings

The chapter highlights how it is important for entrepreneurial organizations to focus on global talent management for their global competitiveness.

Research limitations/implications

This conceptual paper is based on corporate entrepreneurship as the underlying theoretical framework for global talent management, which means the results should be interpreted from an entrepreneurial perspective.

Practical implications

Global talent management is becoming increasingly popular as a way to integrate organizations corporate entrepreneurship goals with their strategic objectives.

Social implications

More organizations are taking a social perspective that encompasses a global mindset for talent management in order to facilitate more entrepreneurial thinking.

Originality/value

This chapter stresses the importance placed on hiring and retaining talented individuals who can contribute to innovative and risk taking outcomes in global organizations.

Citation

Ratten, V. and Ferreira, J. (2016), "Global Talent Management and Corporate Entrepreneurship Strategy", Global Talent Management and Staffing in MNEs (International Business and Management, Vol. 32), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 151-165. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1876-066X20160000032006