Contact Professor Michael Dickmann

Background

Michael has several years of work experience with major consultancies and companies. He has a first class honours degree in Economics from London University and an MSc in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management from LSE. Michael has conducted a variety of consulting and research assignments with cutting edge multinational organisations mostly from the financial, automotive, telecommunications, chemical, electrical engineering and electronics industries. He has also consulted humanitarian agencies, government and the United Nations. He has worked in his native Germany, Australia, the USA, Colombia, Spain and Britain and speaks English and Spanish fluently. 


Current activities

Michael lectures in the areas of international and strategic HRM. Michael’s research focuses on human resource strategies, structures and processes of multinational organisations, international mobility and global careers. Michael is the author / co-editor of several books on International Human Resource Management, Global Mobility and Careers and he is the Senior Editor-in-Chief of The International Journal of Human Resource Management. He regularly publishes in journals such as Human Resource Management, Journal of World Business, Human Resource Management Journal, Organisation Studies, Human Resource Management Review, British Journal of Management, The International Journal of Human Resource Management and others.


Clients

Professional Services - PricewaterhouseCoopers, T-Three Consultants, Gemini Consulting

Industry - Oracle, Siemens, Henkel, Hexagon Metrology, GKN, Philips, Skoda, Pepsi, Iberdrola, Tesa

Finance - HSBC, PBZ, Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank

Government & Not for Profit - United Nations (WFP), WorldVision, People in Aid, Government of Singapore (MoM)


Publications

Articles In Journals

Conference Papers

  • Mello R, Suutari V & Dickmann M (2022) How career adaptability, job fit, and job characteristics impact expatriates' career success. In: 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2022), Seattle, Washington, 5-9 August 2022.
  • Renshaw P, Dickmann M, Parry E, (2019) The value of International Assignments through the lens of real-options-reasoning. In: EURAM Conference (LISBON), Lisbon, 26-29 June 2019.
  • Renshaw P, Parry E & Dickmann M (2018) The Value of International Assignments as Microfoundations of Dynamic Capabilities. In: EURAM Annual Conference, Reykjavik, 19-23 June 2018.
  • Renshaw P St J, Dickmann M & Parry E (2017) The Organisational Value of International Assignments – A Systematic Literature Review. In: EURAM 2017: 17th European Academy of Management Annual Conference - Making Knowledge Work, Glasgow, Scotland, 21-24 June 2017.
  • Suutari V, Brewster C, Makela L, Dickmann M & Tornikoski C (2017) International work experience and the career success: A comparison of assigned and self-initiated expatriates. In: Academy of International Business 2017 Annual Meeting, Dubai, 2 July 2017.
  • Apospori E, Cotton R, Dickmann M, Dries N, Ferencikova S, Gubler M, Kase R, Khapova S & Mayrhofer W (2017) Material non-sustainability and career success across the globe. A 25-country study on the role of national income equality. In: 33rd EGOS Colloquium 2017, Copenhagen, 6 July 2017.
  • Suutari V, Dickmann M & Brewster C (2017) The management of short term assignments within MNCs. In: European Academy of Management 2017 - Making Knowledge Work, Glasgow, 21 June 2017.
  • Renshaw PStJ, Dickmann M & Parry E (2017) The organizational value of international assignments: A systematic literature review. In: EURAM 2017: 17th European Academy of Management Annual Conference - Making Knowledge Work, Glasgow, Scotland, 21-24 June 2017.
  • Suutari V, Dickmann M, Brewster C & Makela L. (2016) Expatriation and the boundaryless career - empirical evidence. In: EURAM: 16th European Academy of Management Annual Conference, 2016, Paris, Universite Paris-Est Creteil, 1-4 June 2016.
  • Cerdin JL, Dickmann M & Lazarova M (2016) Expatriation success in an inter-governmental organization. In: EURAM: 16th European Academy of Management Annual Conference, 2016, Paris, Universite Paris-Est Creteil, 1-4 June 2016.
  • Mayrhofer W, Apospori E, Dickmann M, Dries N, Gubler M, Kaše R, Khapova S, Bosak J, Casado T, Cerdin J-L, Fei Z, Madero S, Mandel D, Mishra SK & Saxena R (2016) Views on career success across the globe: first steps towards a world map of career success. In: 2016 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, 5-9 August 2016.
  • Smale A, Bagdadli S, Cotton RD, Dickmann M, Dysvik A, Gianecchini M, Kaše R, Lazarova M, Dello Russo S & Rozo P (2016) Organizational and individual investments in career development: a cross-country examination. In: 2016 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, 5-9 August 2016.
  • Mäkelä L, Suutari V, Brewster C, Dickmann M & Tornikoski C (2015) Will you still love me tomorrow? The impact of career capital development of expatriates' perceived marketability. In: Academy of Management Annual Conference, 2015**, Vancouver, British Columbia (75th), 7-11 August 2015.
  • Point S, Andresen M & Dickmann M (2015) We will always have Paris-Perceived capital developments from gaining a Management PhD in France. In: 1st International Conference on Self-Initiated Expatriation, Toulouse Business School, 28 May 2015.
  • Andresen M, Bozionelos N, Dickmann M, Haslberger A, Suutari V & Vance C (2015) Completing the puzzle about self-initiated expatriation: Collecting, linking and adding research puzzle pieces. In: EURAM 2015, Warsaw, 17 June 2015.
  • Dickmann M & Cerdin J-L (2011) Bounded and unbounded careers: Assessing attraction factors of locals and foreigners to live in an Asian capital. In: 27th EGOS Colloquium, Gothenburg, 7 July 2011.
  • Doherty N & Dickmann M (2009) Factors driving expatriation: Comparing self-initiated and company-backed expatriates. In: 2009 Academy of Management annual meeting: green management matters, Chicago, IL, 7 August 2009.
  • Dickmann M, Doherty N & Mills T (2008) Exploring differences in drivers of self-initiated and company-sent expatriates. In: Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2008, Anaheim, 8 August 2008.
  • Dickmann M & Doherty N (2008) Organisational and individual perspectives on success in developmental international assignments. In: Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2008, Anaheim, 8 August 2008.
  • Parry E, Dickmann M & Morley M (2008) North American firms and their HR agenda in liberal and coordinated market economies. In: Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2008, Anaheim, 8 August 2008.
  • Dickmann M & Doherty N (2008) Exploring Individual and Organisational Career Goals, Interactions and Outcomes of Developmental International Assignments. In: 4th Workshop on Expatriation, EIASM, Las Palmas.
  • Dickmann M & Couch S (2008) Measuring the efficacy of your mobility programme. In: PricewaterhouseCoopers International Human Resource Services Conference: Fit for business: Keeping HR relevant in a changing world, Rome.
  • Doherty N, Dickmann M & Mills T (2008) Determinants of boundary-crossing attitudes and behaviours.. In: European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology 2008 Conference, Vrije University, 12 March 2008.
  • Doherty N & Dickmann M (2008) Self-initiated expatriates - corporate asset or a liability. In: 4th Workshop on Expatriation, EIASM, Las Palmas.
  • Doherty N, Dickmann M & Mills T (2008) Career activists or active careerists? Upsetting the status quo of expatriate career management. In: EGOS 24th Colloquium, Amsterdam.
  • Dickmann M & Doherty N (2007) Assessing the success of international assignments in three fast-moving consumer goods organizations. In: EGOS 23rd Colloquium, 2007, Vienna, 5-7 July 2007.
  • Dickmann M (2007) Barriers to Mobility. In: European Council of Human Resources Executives Conference on HR Governance Models, Brussels.
  • Dickmann M & Couch S (2007) Increasing the Business Efficacy of Global Mobility. In: PwC Global HR Conference. Balancing the Global HR Equation - People, Knowledge and Culture, Orlando, FL.
  • Dickmann M & Doherty N (2006) The meaning of success in expatriation. In: EGOS 22nd Colloquium, 2006, Bergen, 6-8 July 2006.
  • Dickmann M (2006)

    International Management Development

    . In: Professional Development Workshop, GDO Doctoral Consortium, Vancouver, 8 August 2015.
  • Dickmann M, Doherty N & Brewster C (2006) Why do they go? Individual and corporate perspectives on the factors influencing the decision to accept an international assignment. In: Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2006, Atlanta, GA, 11-16 August 2006.
  • Doherty N, Dickmann M & Brewster C (2006) Using the career capital of assignments back home. The "career wobble". In: British Academy of Management Conference BAM 2006*, Belfast, N. Ireland, 12 September 2016 - 14 September 2006.
  • Doherty N & Dickmann M (2005) The symbolic capital of international assignments: Linking career capital accumulation to human capital utilization. In: EGOS 21st Colloquium, 2005, Berlin, 30 June - 2 July 2005.
  • Dickmann M, Wigley-Jones R & Ives M (2005) Understanding and avoiding barriers to mobility. In: PwC Global HR Conference, Orlando.
  • Doherty N & Dickmann M (2005) Accumulating and utilizing the capital of global careers. In: British Academy of Management Conference, Oxford.
  • Dickmann M & Muller-Camen M (2004) Transnational human resource management levels and politics. In: Academy of Management Annual Meeting, New Orleans.
  • Dickmann M & Harris H (2004) Contrasting individual's career capital and human capital formation strategies in international organisations. In: EGOS 20th Colloquium, Ljubljana.
  • Dickmann M (2004) Configuring for IHRM innovation: A typology and empirical assessment of strategies, structures and processes of international HRM. In: Multinationals and the International Diffusion of Organizational Forms and Practices Conference, Barcelona.
  • Dickmann M & Tyson S (2003) The Effects of National Business Systems on Human Resource and Payroll Administration – A Comparative Study of Germany and the UK. In: 7th Conference on International Human Resource Management, Limerick, 4 June 2003.
  • Dickmann M (2000) Transferring German Human Resource Management - Desirable, Feasible, Successful?. In: IIRA 12th World Congress, Tokyo.
  • Dickmann Michael (2000) Transnational Human Resource Management – The More The Better? - Conceptualisation and Case Research in Spain, Britain and Germany -. In: British Academy of Management Conference, Edinburgh.
  • Dickmann M (1999) Harmful Extremes: Transnational Human Resource Management in Europe. In: British Academy of Management Conference, Manchester.
  • Dickmann M (1999) Transnational Human Resource Management: a Move Too Far? A Comparative Analysis in Spain, Britain and Germany. In: International Workshop on Organization of the Future in the 'Information Society', Cadiz.

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