Strategic human resource workshops organized by EIASM provide a very friendly and constructive atmosphere to present your work in progress and get good feedback. This time we really wanted to get feedback because our papers were at a decisive stage when this was most needed. My colleagues Saša Batistič, Sachiko Yamao and I were lucky to get feedback from some eminent names that were present at the conference. We presented the cocitation paper “The development of HRM-firm performance debate domains: A co-citation analysis” and a social network, international HRM paper ” Interunit Ties and Social Networks of Expatriates in MNCs:Towards a Cross-Level Process Model”. The Reykjavik University, which was hosting the workshop, is instrumental for Iceland’s further development. The country that virtually bursts with geothermal energy is aware of its limited talent pool and tries to do everything to create the best conditions to attract global talent, even shaping the university building as our solar system.
