The new textbook “International Business Strategy and Cross-Cultural Management – An Applied Approach” by Nicole Franziska Richter, Jesper Strandskov, Sven Hauff and Vasyl Taras has been published. This comprehensive yet accessible textbook provides readers with an advanced and applied approach to traditional international business that integrates key cross-cultural management topics. Its ten chapters give profound insights into analysing, selecting and entering international markets, strategic partnerships, strategic positioning, global value chains, organizational designs, intercultural interaction, leadership and motivation and international human resources management. More info can be found here.

We are pleased to announce that the paper “The joint role of HRM and leadership for teleworker well-being – An analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic” by Niklas Günther, Sven Hauff and Philip Dorsel was awarded the Best Paper Award of the Human Resource Management Track at this year’s European Academy of Management Conference.

In the context of the International Conference on Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling in Bejing, Sven Hauff and Nicole F. Richter will conduct a workshop on “The combined use of partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) and necessary condition analysis (NCA)” on 05.05.2021. More information can be found here.

Management International Review calls for papers for a Focused Issue on “The Use of Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) and Complementary Methods in International Management (IM) Research”. Guest editors are Nicole F. Richter (University of Southern Denmark), Sven Hauff (HSU), Siegfried P. Gudergan (University of Waikato, New Zealand), and Christian M. Ringle (Hamburg University of Technology). The Call for Papers can be found here. The deadline for submission is 30 March 2021.

Sven Hauff and Daniela Rastetter (University of Hamburg) are Guest Editors for a Special Issue in Management Revue – Socio Economics Studies on “Good Work: Eroding and New Standards in a Changing World”. The corresponding Call for Papers can be found here. Deadline for submission is 30 December 2019.

Together with Nicole Franziska Richter (University of Southern Denmark), Jan Dul (Rotterdam School of Management) and Florence Allard-Poesi (Université Paris-Est), Sven Hauff will hold a symposium on “Necessary Condition Analysis – Method and Applications” at the next EURAM conference in Dublin (10-12 June, 2020). The aim of the symposium is to bring the method closer to all interested researchers.  In addition, researchers who already use NCA can discuss their ideas and projects.