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To more effectively address challenges of our increasingly global workplace, this chapter presents a promising fusion of two important areas of applied research: knowledge management and talent management. The mixture of these two conceptual orientations into a theoretical hybrid for directing future global business practice, which we call “smart global talent management,” merges the strengths of each approach, yet combined they also are able to surmount the shortcomings of each. We first will examine the strengths and limitations of each individual approach and then discuss the important advantages of our merged conceptual model for directing future research and practice in human resource management within a global context.
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Vance, C.M., Vaiman, V., Cosic, A., Abedi, M., Sena, R. (2014). Smart Global Talent Management: A Promising Hybrid. In: Al Ariss, A. (eds) Global Talent Management. Management for Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05125-3_3
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