CWF Seminar: The Macro Factors Affecting Refugee Adjustment

Event Name	CWF Seminar: The Macro Factors Affecting Refugee Adjustment
Start Date	Apr 16, 2019 2:00 pm
Description	Refugees have become a major socio-economic and political challenge in the 21^st century. With more than 50 years of scholarship on global mobility, the field of International Business (IB) is well positioned to address this challenge. Yet, the field’s almost exclusive focus on expatriates has trapped it in an over-reliance on assumptions and perspectives that are most applicable only to a sub-group of international workers, a subgroup that, to date, has failed to include refugees. The empirical path dependence resulting from such a narrow focus on expatriates has hindered IB scholarship in conceptualising and contributing to support the international adjustment of individuals beyond corporate assignees. We propose that by heavy reliance on individual and organisational factors, the field of IB has underplayed the importance of macro (economic, social and institutional) factors in international adjustment. Our expansion of IB’s focus to include an understanding of refugees allowed us to expand the field’s overall conceptualisations of international adjustment to encompass various groups of migrants, including both expatriates and refugees. Using a refugee-lens has exposed taken-for-granted assumptions and generated new research insight that will allow IB to develop in new and important ways that will foster both rigorous research and have important practical implications. About the Speaker Betina Szkudlarek is an Associate Professor in Management and the Program Director for the Master of Management at The University of Sydney Business School. Betina’s core research interests lie at the intersection of cross-cultural management, international HRM, international business ethics, and, management of diversity. Her work has been published in top-tier international journals such as Organization Studies, Human Resource Management, Journal of Business Ethics, and Academy of Management Learning and Education. She currently holds a competitive Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Grant for a research project titled ‘Integrating refugees in the workforce — the role of host country social support’. She is also the lead editor of the upcoming SAGE Handbook of Contemporary Cross-Cultural Management. Beyond her academic commitments, Betina holds the post of a Strategic, Sustainability and Growth Consultant with the United National Alliance of Civilizations, where she works with the recipients of the UNAOC and BMW Intercultural Innovation Awards. When Tuesday, 16 April 2019 2:00 pm–3:30 pm Where Finance Decision Lab (Room 110, Level 1) 4 Eastern Road, Macquarie University North Ryde NSW 2109 RSVP Register here For all enquiries, please contact: Lynne Cousins or Jason Antony. Flyer The flyer for the event is available for download.

Event Name

Start Date

Apr 16, 2019 2:00 pm

Description

Refugees have become a major socio-economic and political challenge in the 21^st century. With more than 50 years of scholarship on global mobility, the field of International Business (IB) is well positioned to address this challenge. Yet, the field’s almost exclusive focus on expatriates has trapped it in an over-reliance on assumptions and perspectives that are most applicable only to a sub-group of international workers, a subgroup that, to date, has failed to include refugees. The empirical path dependence resulting from such a narrow focus on expatriates has hindered IB scholarship in conceptualising and contributing to support the international adjustment of individuals beyond corporate assignees. We propose that by heavy reliance on individual and organisational factors, the field of IB has underplayed the importance of macro (economic, social and institutional) factors in international adjustment. Our expansion of IB’s focus to include an understanding of refugees allowed us to expand the field’s overall conceptualisations of international adjustment to encompass various groups of migrants, including both expatriates and refugees. Using a refugee-lens has exposed taken-for-granted assumptions and generated new research insight that will allow IB to develop in new and important ways that will foster both rigorous research and have important practical implications.

About the Speaker

Betina Szkudlarek is an Associate Professor in Management and the Program Director for the Master of Management at The University of Sydney Business School. Betina’s core research interests lie at the intersection of cross-cultural management, international HRM, international business ethics, and, management of diversity. Her work has been published in top-tier international journals such as Organization Studies, Human Resource Management, Journal of Business Ethics, and Academy of Management Learning and Education. She currently holds a competitive Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Grant for a research project titled ‘Integrating refugees in the workforce — the role of host country social support’. She is also the lead editor of the upcoming SAGE Handbook of Contemporary Cross-Cultural Management.
Beyond her academic commitments, Betina holds the post of a Strategic, Sustainability and Growth Consultant with the United National Alliance of Civilizations, where she works with the recipients of the UNAOC and BMW Intercultural Innovation Awards.

When

Tuesday, 16 April 2019
2:00 pm–3:30 pm

Where

Finance Decision Lab (Room 110, Level 1)
4 Eastern Road, Macquarie University
North Ryde NSW 2109

RSVP

Register here

For all enquiries, please contact: Lynne Cousins or Jason Antony.

Flyer

The flyer for the event is available for download.

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