An institutional perspective on global talent management: the conflicts of logics in Arab Gulf Countries
This paper addresses global talent management in firms from an institutional perspective. The study was conducted among managers of companies in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). In these countries, the issues surrounding employment are typically international and different from those in a Western context. The difficulties facing talent management are unravelled by examining the conflict of the institutional logics at play. In all of the companies, the nationalization of the workforce hampers the implementation of their programs. In both regional and local companies, the influence of the socio-cultural context is also a major obstacle although some progress is apparent.