Sub-theme 30: Global Forms of Work, Global Mobility, and Multinational Enterprises

Convenors:
Charmi Patel, University of Reading, United Kingdom
Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki, University of Vienna, Austria
Pawan Budhwar, Aston Business School, United Kingdom
Session I: Thursday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, EA.5.044
Expatriate Management and MNEs
Chair: Pawan Budhwar
Varina Michaels
Expatriate identities and adjustment: An intersectional work and play perspective
Discussant(s): Elise Goiseau
Anoop Adhur Kutty
Expatriate adjustment and success – Do expatriates always want to reduce uncertainty?
Discussant(s): Varina Michaels
Elise Goiseau and Wafa Ben Khaled
Expatriates’ perception of performance in highly competitive environment: The case of Big Four audit firm
Discussant(s): Anoop Adhur Kutty
Session II: Thursday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, EA.5.044
MNEs and Globally Distributed Work
Chair: Charmi Patel
Dina Myllymäki, Adam Smale and Jennie Sumelius
Managerial attention in performance evaluation of mobile telework: A sociomaterial view
Discussant(s): Nidheesh Joseph
Nidheesh Joseph, Abhishek Totawar and Ranjeet Nambudiri
Organizing through paradox: a case of everyday sensegiving and sensemaking in a globally distributed small business
Discussant(s): Dina Myllymäki
Session III: Friday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30, EA.5.044
MNEs and Globally Distributed Work
Chair: Charmi Patel
Linh Chi Vo and Diana C. Santistevan
How do boundary-management processes facilitate global work in MNEs?
Discussant(s): Farheen Fathima Shaik
Farheen Fathima Shaik, Upam Pushpak Makhecha, Biju Varkkey and Sirish Kumar Gouda
Distributed engagement and distributed disengagement in global virtual teams
Discussant(s): Linh Chi Vo
Session IV: Friday, July 08, 11:00 to 12:30, EA.5.044
International Perspectives on Entrepreneurship
Chair: Pawan Budhwar
Carlos Morales, Steven A. Brieger, Dirk de Clercq and Felicia Felicia Martin
Understanding the immigrant–native gap in entrepreneurship: On the role of economic, socio-cultural, and institutional factors
Discussant(s): Veselina Stoyanova
Veselina Stoyanova and Stoyan Stoyanov
Migrant entrepreneurs creating knowledge spillover effects abroad
Discussant(s): Phil W. Eyre
Phil W. Eyre, Michelle Mielly and Felix Hübner
Colliding mobility rationales: Incentivized relocation meets nomadic entrepreneurs
Discussant(s): Carlos Morales
Session V: Friday, July 08, 14:00 to 15:30, EA.5.044
MNEs and Covid-19
Chair: Pawan Budhwar
Mudit Shukla, Divya Tyagi and Sushanta Mishra
Being on a foreign land amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining the expatriates’ experiences during the pandemic and reconsidering the tenets of the push-pull theory
Discussant(s): Rosalie Schwörer
Rosalie Schwörer and Joerg Bueechl
A multi-cultural analysis of the effects of pandemic-induced remote work on employee satisfaction
Discussant(s): Klaudijo Klaser
Klaudijo Klaser, Paolo Casari and Roberta Cuel
The future of agile work in Italy after Covid-19: A micro-survey study
Discussant(s): Mudit Shukla
Session VI: Saturday, July 09, 09:00 to 10:30, EA.5.044
MNEs and Talent Management
Chair: Charmi Patel
Francine Schlosser, Deborah M. McPhee and Deborah M. McPhee
Global talent management during times of uncertainty
Discussant(s): Marius Brand
Snehal Shah, Sumita Datta and Rachna Wadhwa
A community of practice perspective to leadership development in a phygital era
Discussant(s): Marek Ćwiklicki
Kamila Pilch, Marek Ćwiklicki and Agnieszka Pacut
Employers’ expectations regarding newcomers’ skills for working in multinational corporations: The case of global business services sector in Poland
Discussant(s): Snehal Shah
Session VII: Saturday, July 09, 11:00 to 12:30, EA.5.044
Culture and MNEs
Chair: Pawan Budhwar
Nishani Bourmault
The benefits of being a cultural outsider to informal norms: The journey of MNEs becoming less hierarchical in France
Discussant(s): Francine Schlosser
Marius Brand, Günter K. Stahl and Vasyl Taras
Relativizing the moral compass – International experience and cultural intelligence as roots of unethical behavior?
Discussant(s): Nishani Bourmault