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Business and Management
Finland
2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
51
Citations
16084
World Ranking
917
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Finland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Finland Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Finland Leader Award

Overview

Ingmar Björkman is affiliated with the Hanken School of Economics in Finland. Their research spans multiple fields within the social sciences, focusing particularly on Business, Management and Accounting as well as Social Sciences. Within these areas, their work has a strong emphasis on subfields such as Strategy and Management, Communication, Sociology and Political Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Gender Studies.

The scientist's recent scholarly output includes publications in notable venues, highlighting contributions across several topics and interdisciplinary intersections. These journals and proceedings showcase the breadth of their engagement with international business and HR challenges.

  • Journal of International Business Studies
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • The International Journal of Human Resource Management
  • Organizational Dynamics
  • Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks

Major topics covered in their research include Innovation and Knowledge Management, International Student and Expatriate Challenges, International Business and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy, Human Resource and Talent Management, Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, and Migration and Labor Dynamics.

  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • International Student and Expatriate Challenges
  • International Business and FDI
  • Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
  • Human Resource and Talent Management
  • Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics

Their recent publications reflect topics centered on multinational enterprises, skilled migration, language skills in foreign employees, global talent management in disruptive contexts, and immigrant identity orientation. Examples of these papers are:

  • "Navigating MNE control and coordination: A critical review and directions for future research" (2023), Journal of International Business Studies
  • "Linking institutional context to the community and career embeddedness of skilled migrants: The role of destination- and origin-country identifications" (2024), Journal of International Business Studies
  • "A fifth wheel? Local language skills and work-related outcomes among foreign employees" (2023), The International Journal of Human Resource Management
  • "Global talent management in an age of disruption" (2025), Organizational Dynamics
  • "Immigrants' Identity Orientations: Predicting the Integration Success of Highly Qualified Migrants" (2022), Academy of Management Proceedings

Björkman has collaborated extensively with a consistent group of coauthors, highlighting interconnected research efforts in their field. Frequent collaborators include Vladimir Pucik, Paul Evans, Günter Stahl, Alexei Koveshnikov, and Günter K. Stahl.

  • Vladimir Pucik
  • Paul Evans
  • Günter Stahl
  • Alexei Koveshnikov
  • Günter K. Stahl

In addition to journal articles, Björkman has contributed to book publications, notably with Edward Elgar Publishing. One of their book works is titled "The Global Challenge," published in 2023.

Best Publications

  • MNC knowledge transfer, subsidiary absorptive capacity, and HRM

    Dana Minbaeva;Torben Pedersen;Ingmar Björkman;Carl F Fey

  • The Global Challenge: International Human Resource Management

    V. Pucik;Paul Evans;Ingmar Björkman

  • Managing knowledge transfer in MNCs: the impact of headquarters control mechanisms

    Ingmar Björkman;Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen;Li Li

  • Cultural differences and capability transfer in cross-border acquisitions: the mediating roles of capability complementarity, absorptive capacity, and social integration

    Ingmar Björkman;Günter K Stahl;Eero Vaara

  • The effect of human resource management practices on firm performance in Russia

    Carl F. Fey;Ingmar Björkman;Antonina Pavlovskaya

  • Institutional theory and MNC subsidiary HRM practices: evidence from a three-country study

    Ingmar Björkman;Carl F Fey;Hyeon Jeong Park

  • The Effect of Human Resource Management Practices on MNC Subsidiary Performance in Russia

    Carl F. Fey;Ingmar Björkman

  • Social relationships and business networks: The case of Western companies in China

    Ingmar Björkman;Sören Kock

  • Managing subsidiary knowledge creation: The effect of control mechanisms on subsidiary local embeddedness

    Ulf Andersson;Ingmar Björkman;Mats Forsgren

  • Talent or not? Employee reactions to talent identification

    Ingmar Björkman;Mats Ehrnrooth;Kristiina Mäkelä;Adam Smale

  • Six principles of effectice global talent management

    Gunter K. Stahl;Ingmar Bjorkman;Elaine Farndale;Elaine Farndale;Shad S. Morris

  • Human resource management and the performance of Western firms in China

    Ingmar Björkman;Fan Xiucheng

  • The Impact of Organizational and National Cultural Differences on Social Conflict and Knowledge Transfer in International Acquisitions

    Eero Vaara;Riikka Sarala;Günter K. Stahl;Ingmar Björkman

  • How do MNCs establish their talent pools?Influences on individuals' likelihood of being labeled as talent

    Kristiina Mäkelä;Ingmar Björkman;Mats Ehrnrooth

  • Nordic International Business Research. A Review of Its Development

    Ingmar Björkman;Mats Forsgren

  • The effect of human resource management practices on Japanese MNC subsidiary performance: a partial mediating model

    Hyeon Jeong Park;Hitoshi Mitsuhashi;Carl F. Fey;Ingmar Björkman

  • The management of human resources in Chinese-Western joint ventures

    Ingmar Björkman;Yuan Lu

  • Transferring HR practices within multinational corporations

    Ingmar Björkman;Jon E. Lervik

  • Expatriate staffing in foreign subsidiaries of Japanese multinational corporations in the PRC and the United States

    Andrew Delios;Ingmar Bjorkman

  • Handbook of Research in International Human Resource Management

    Günter K. Stahl;Ingmar Björkman

  • MNC KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER, SUBSIDIARY ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY AND HRM.

    Dana Minbaeva;Torben Pedersen;Ingmar Björkman;Carl F. Fey

Frequent Co-Authors

Eero Vaara
Eero Vaara University of Oxford
Günter K. Stahl
Günter K. Stahl Vienna University of Economics and Business
Carl F. Fey
Carl F. Fey BI Norwegian Business School
Pawan Budhwar
Pawan Budhwar Aston University
Mats Forsgren
Mats Forsgren Uppsala University
Elaine Farndale
Elaine Farndale Pennsylvania State University
Dana Minbaeva
Dana Minbaeva King's College London
Janne Tienari
Janne Tienari Hanken School of Economics
Patrick M. Wright
Patrick M. Wright University of South Carolina
Torben Pedersen
Torben Pedersen Copenhagen Business School

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