2026 Chris Brewster: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	82	145	135	14	11	443	24792

Research.com Recognitions

2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Chris Brewster is affiliated with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the fields of social sciences and business, management, and accounting. Their research spans various subfields including communication, sociology and political science, organizational behavior and human resource management, gender studies, and strategy and management.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

International Student and Expatriate Challenges
Gender Diversity and Inequality
Employment and Welfare Studies
Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
International Business and FDI
Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Socioeconomic Development in MENA

Their recent publications encompass a range of issues related to global mobility, management studies, and cultural diversity. Selected recent papers include:

Two decades of research into SIEs and what do we know? A systematic review of the most influential literature and a proposed research agenda, 2021, Journal of Global Mobility The Home of Expatriate Management Research
Understanding the Global Refugee Crisis: Managerial Consequences and Policy Implications, 2020, Academy of Management Perspectives
Balancing Rigour and Relevance: The Case for Methodological Pragmatism in Conducting Large-Scale, Multi-country and Comparative Management Studies, 2020, British Journal of Management
Beyond the double-edged sword of cultural diversity in teams: Progress, critique, and next steps, 2021, Journal of International Business Studies
The unintended consequences of the pandemic on non-pandemic research activities, 2021, Research Policy

Brewster frequently publishes in prominent academic venues such as:

The International Journal of Human Resource Management
Academy of Management Proceedings
Journal of International Business Studies
Journal of Global Mobility The Home of Expatriate Management Research
British Journal of Management

Their collaborations include working with co-authors such as Washika Haak-Saheem, Peter Holland, Michael Brookes, Rita Fontinha, and Michael Morley. The volume of co-authored work ranges from five to twelve joint publications with these frequent collaborators.

Best Publications

Making their own way: international experience through self-initiated foreign assignments

Vesa Suutari;Chris Brewster

828
Citations
Towards a ‘European’ Model of Human Resource Management

Chris Brewster

642
Citations
Career capital during international work experiences: contrasting self-initiated expatriate experiences and assigned expatriation

Tiina Jokinen;Chris Brewster;Vesa Suutari

625
Citations
Policy and Practice in European Human Resource Management : The Price Waterhouse Cranfield Survey

Chris Brewster;Ariane Hegewisch

593
Citations
Globalizing Human Resource Management

Paul Sparrow;Chris Brewster;Hilary Harris

580
Citations
Repatriation: empirical evidence from a longitudinal study of careers and expectations among Finnish expatriates

Vesa Suutari;Chris Brewster

488
Citations
Expatriation: A developing research agenda

Jaime Bonache;Chris Brewster;Vesa Suutari

463
Citations
Human resource management in Europe : evidence of convergence ?

Chris Brewster;Wolfgang Mayrhofer;Michael Morley

457
Citations
Knowledge Transfer and the Management of Expatriation

Jaime Bonache;Chris Brewster

443
Citations
Back to the Future: Implications for the Field of HRM of the Multistakeholder Perspective Proposed 30 Years Ago

Michael Beer;Paul Boselie;Chris Brewster

442
Citations
Line management responsibility for HRM: what is happening in Europe?

Henrik Holt Larsen;Chris Brewster

434
Citations
Human resource management in Europe: evidence from ten countries

Chris Brewster;Henrik HoltLarsen;F Trompenaars

400
Citations
The Management of Expatriates

Chris Brewster

392
Citations
Strategic Human Resource Management: The Value of Different Paradigms

Chris Brewster

378
Citations
European Perspectives on Human Resource Management

Chris Brewster

367
Citations
Towards a new model of globalizing HRM

Chris Brewster;Paul Sparrow;Hilary Harris

345
Citations
Why do they go? Individual and corporate perspectives on the factors influencing the decision to accept an international assignment

Michael Dickmann;Noeleen Doherty;Timothy Mills;Chris Brewster

338
Citations
Enhancing the role of human resource management in corporate sustainability and social responsibility: A multi-stakeholder, multidimensional approach to HRM

Günter K. Stahl;Chris J. Brewster;Chris J. Brewster;David G. Collings;Aida Hajro

332
Citations
Similarity, isomorphism or duality? Recent survey evidence on the human resource management policies of multinational corporations

Chris Brewster;Geoffrey Wood;Michael Brookes

325
Citations
The coffee-machine system: how international selection really works

Hilary Harris;Chris Brewster

316
Citations
Conceptualising the future of HRM and technology research

Tatiana Bondarouk;Chris Brewster

284
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoffrey Wood University of Western Ontario

Paul Sparrow Lancaster University

Marc Goergen IE University

Vesa Suutari University of Vaasa

Michael J. Morley University of Limerick

Elaine Farndale Pennsylvania State University

Patrick Gunnigle University of Limerick

Paul Boselie Utrecht University

David G. Collings Trinity College Dublin

Mark Stevenson University of Melbourne

External Links

Personal website of Chris Brewster Google Scholar page

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