Macro talent management theorizing: transnational perspectives of the political economy of talent formation in the Arab Middle East

Metcalfe, BD, Makarem, Y and Afiouni, F (2020) Macro talent management theorizing: transnational perspectives of the political economy of talent formation in the Arab Middle East. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 32 (1). pp. 147-182. ISSN 0958-5192

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Abstract

Challenging dominant Global North trajectories, we critically explore the complex terrain of global talent debates. We contribute new theoretical insights to the Macro Talent Management (MTM) field by examining the complexity of Talent Management (TM) through a transnational and political economy of skill formation lens. We provide a macro assessment of TM processes, at different scales (i.e. Local, National and Transnational) and explore the myriad partners in devising TM strategy that existing scholarship has not sufficiently examined. We explore the complexities of economic organization and highlight that TM theorising would benefit from spatialized accounts, and the politics of location in shaping TM logics and ideas, embedded in the geographies of transnational organizing. We take the Arab Middle East as a case in point to highlight the deficiency of current Macro Talent Management models and proffer a new multi-level model at global, national and local to reflect the dimensions of Talent Management realities in the Arab Middle East, and indeed other developing regions. We are driven by a concern that Talent Management theorization is rooted in a neoliberal ethic and rarely considers how the local becomes global, and how the global is articulated in the local.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	1503 Business and Management, 1505 Marketing, 1605 Policy and Administration
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5001 Business H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management H Social Sciences > HF Commerce
Divisions:	Doctoral Management Studies (from Sep 19)
Publisher:	Routledge
Date of acceptance:	8 August 2020
Date of first compliant Open Access:	13 April 2022
Date Deposited:	13 Apr 2022 12:49
Last Modified:	17 May 2022 08:21
DOI or ID number:	10.1080/09585192.2020.1819858
URI:	https://ljmu-9.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/16658

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