The field of Talent Management has grown and advanced exponentially over the past several years as organizations, large and small, public and private, global and domestic, have realized that to gain and sustain a global competitive advantage, they must manage their talents effectively. Talent Management has become a major theoretical and empirical topic of intellectual curiosity from various disciplinary perspectives, such as human resource management, arts and entertainment management, international management, etc. This Companion is an indispensable source that provides an authoritative, in-depth, and comprehensive examination of emerging Talent Management topics. Divided into five thematic sections that provide a unique overarching structure to organize forty-one chapters written by leading and renowned international scholars, this Companion assesses essential knowledge, trends, debates, and avenues for future research in a single volume: Evolution and Conceptualization of Talent Management; The External Context of Talent Management; The Internal Context of Talent Management; Individuals, Workforce, and Processes of Talent Management; and Outcomes of Talent Management. In this way, the Companion is essential reading for anyone involved in the scholarly study of Talent Management, including academic researchers, advanced postgraduate and graduate students, and management consultants. For further debate on Talent Management, readers might be interested in the supplementary volume Contemporary Talent Management: A Research Companion, sold separately.

Table of Contents:
1. Talent Management: An Introduction Section I Evolution and Conceptualization of Talent Management 2. History of Talent Management Paul Sparrow 3. Building Micro-Foundations for Talent Management David Collings and Dana Minbaeva 4. The Employee and Talent Management: An interaction framed through three lenses: Work, team and the organisation Karin King 5. Talent Management: From Resource-based View to Dynamic Capabilities Kushal Sharma 6. The ‘Value’ Perspective to Talent Management Heba Makram Section II The External Context of Talent Management 7. Talent Management: Decision Making in the Global Context Violetta Khoreva and Vlad Vaiman 8. Global Talent Macro Management: An Interdisciplinary Approach Shaista Khilji and Ramien Pierre 9. Talent Competitiveness: A framework for Macro Talent Management Paul Evans, Eduardo Rodriguez-Montemayor, and Bruno Lanvin 10. The Global Talent Competitiveness Index: An Empirical Assessment and Lessons for Macro Talent Management Paul Evans, Eduardo Rodriguez-Montemayor, and Bruno Lanvin 11. Talent Management in Asia Fang Lee Cooke 12. Talent Management in Africa: Challenges, Opportunities, and Prospects Fang Lee Cooke 13. Taking stock of HRM Research in Latin America: Implications for Talent Management Jordi Trullen and Jaime Bonache 14. Talent Management in European Organizations Agnieszka Skuza and Hugh Scullion 15. Talent Management and Migration Jean-Luc Cerdin, Chris Brewster and Lovanirina Ramboarison-Lalao 16. Talent management and performance in the public sector Paul Boselie, Marian Thunnissen and Joost Monster 17. Talent Management in Academia Marian Thunnissen, Pleun van Arensbergen, and Marieke van den Brink Section III The Internal Context of Talent Management 18. Hard Work or Hard-wired? The Nature-nurture Debate on Talent Management Maria Christina Meyers and Anneloes Bal 19. Talent Management and Generational Differences Marion Festing and Lynn Schafer 20. It’s not either/or; it’s both-and: The paradox between exclusive talent management and inclusive diversity management Dagmar Daubner-Siva 21. Talent Management and Career Management Nicky Dries, Elise Marescaux and Anand van Zelderen 22. Exclusive talent management: Examining ethical concerns and boundaries Stephen Swailes 23. Talent Management and the communication of talent status Jennie Sumelius and Adam Smale 24. E-Talent: Connecting Information Technology and Talent Management Sharna Wiblen Section IV Individuals, Workforce, and Processes of Talent Management 25. A view from across the way: Perspectives on Talent Management from the field of global leadership Allan Bird and Mark Mendenhall 26. Third Culture Kids: Early Talent Potential for Global Work? Jan Selmer, Yvonne McNulty and Jakob Lauring 27. The Benefits and Challenges of Incorporating Global Mindset into GTM Strategies Rachel Clapp-Smith and Barzantny Cordula 28. Herding Cats: Expatriate Talent Acquisition and development Vlad Vaiman, Yvonne McNulty and Arno Haslberger 29. Talent Management and Workforce Differentiation Michael Koch and Elise Marescaux 30. Talent Management: A Focus on the Supporting Cast of ‘B’ players Amina Malik and Parbudyal Singh 31. It’s Crowded at the Top: How to Retain and Reward Star Employees Shad Morris, James Oldroyd and Kathleen Bahr 32. When Rising Stars Falter: High Potential Status as an Impediment to Learning from Failure Len Karakowsky and Igor Kotlyar 33. Talent Management, Stars and Geographically Distributed Teams Julia Eisenberg 34. Talent Spotting: A Review of Meanings and Identification Tools Anthony McDonnell and Agnieszka Skuza 35. Talent Acquisition: A Critical First Step for Effective Talent Management James Breaugh 36. Approaches to develop High Potential Talent - Intended and Unintended Consequences Miriam Lacey and Kevin Groves 37. Effective Coaching for high potentials: A talent Management Approach Margarita Nyfoudi and Konstantinos Tasoulis 38. Talent Management and Developing Leadership Talent Chandana Sanyal and Julie Haddock-Millar Section V Outcomes of Talent Management 39. Talent Analytics Alec Levenson 40. Integrating Talent Management and Performance Management: A Workforce Differentiation Perspective Shaun Pichler and Brian Burgess 41. The Relationship between Talent Management and Individual and Organizational Performance Benjamin Krebs and Marius Wehner