Sebastian
Reiche

Professor of Managing People in Organizations

• PhD in Management, University of Melbourne, Australia
• BA/Master in Economics and Business Administration, University of Hannover, Germany

B. Sebastian Reiche is Professor of the Department of Managing People in Organizations and Associate Director of Faculty at IESE. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Prof. Reiche’s research focuses on international assignments and forms of global work, knowledge transfer, talent retention, culture and language in global organizations, and global leadership. He has received several research awards from the prestigious Academy of Management, including the Barry Richman Best Dissertation Finalist Award and the International HRM Scholarly Research Award in two consecutive years, as well as the Journal of International Business Silver Medal for his contributions to international business research.

His research has appeared in scholarly journals such as Academy of Management Discoveries, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Science, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Human Resource Management, and Journal of World Business, among many others. He has also guest edited several special issues in academic journals. His research and expertise have been featured in international press, including The Economist, The Financial Times, Forbes, BBC Capital, Handelsblatt (Germany), El País (Spain), and Você RH (Brazil).

Prof. Reiche is Associate Editor of Human Resource Management Journal and co-editor of Advances in Global Leadership. He serves as member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, International Journal of Human Resource Management and International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, and is an editorial advisory board member of the Journal of Global Mobility. He is also a past co-chair of the annual Workshop on International Management that is sponsored by the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM).

Prof. Reiche is a member of the Academic Committee for Executive Education, which monitors the academic integrity of all IESE Executive Education programs, where he is responsible for International Open Programs. He also serves as Academic Director of the Program for Management Development (PMD). Prof. Reiche has taught at the University of Melbourne (Australia), Nile University (Egypt), and AESE Business School (Portugal). He has consulted with companies such as SAP, Haier, Wacker, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Puig, and has designed, directed and delivered Custom Executive Education programs for a number of companies, including Boehringer Ingelheim, SAP, Deutsche Bank, Deloitte, and Rijk Zwaan. Prof. Reiche advises start-ups in the human capital space and regularly blogs on the topic of global work.

Areas of interest

* Global work and global mobility
* Talent Development and Retention
* Knowledge Transfer
* Global Leadership
* Cross-Cultural Management
* Trust and Social Capital

Publications

Journal Articles (refereed)

REICHE, S. (2023). Between interdependence and autonomy. Toward a typology of work design modes in the new world of work. Human Resource Management Journal. doi:10.1111/1748-8583.12495. (Online first)

PELTOKORPI, V., FROESE, F. J., REICHE, S., KLAR, S. (2022). Reverse knowledge flows. How and when do preparation and reintegration facilitate repatriate knowledge transfer? Journal of Management Studies, 59 (7), 1869-1893. doi:10.1111/joms.12802.

KIM, H., REICHE, S., HARZING, A.-W. (2022). How does successive inpatriation contribute to subsidiary capability building and subsidiary evolution?. A longitudinal perspective on inpatriates’ knowledge transfer.. Journal of International Business Studies (53), 1394-1419. doi:10.1057/s41267-021-00494-3.

NEELEY, T., REICHE, S. (2022). How global leaders gain power through downward deference and reduction of social distance. Academy of Management Journal, 65 (1), 11-34. doi:10.5465/amj.2019.0531.

SELMER, J., DICKMAN, M., FROESE, F. J., LAURING, J., REICHE, S., SHAFFER, M. (2022). The potential of virtual global mobility. Implications for practice and research. Journal of Global Mobility, 10 (1), pp. 1-13.

AKKAN, E., LEE, Y. -T., REICHE, S. (2022). How and when do prior international experiences lead to global work?. A career motivation perspective. Human Resource Management, 61 (1), 117-132. doi:doi.org/10.1002/hrm.22083.

REICHE, S., FROESE, F. J., STOERMER, S., KLAR, S. (2021). Best of both worlds. How embeddedness fit in the host unit and headquarters improve repatriate knowledge transfer. Journal of International Business Studies, 52 (7), 1331-134. doi:10.1057/s41267-020-00356-4.

CERAR, J., NELL, P., REICHE, S. (2021). The declining share of primary data and the neglect of the individual level in international business research. Journal of International Business Studies, 52 (7), 1365-137. doi:10.1057/s41267-021-00451-0.

REICHE, S., DIMITROVA, M., WESTMAN, M., CHEN, S., WURTZ, O., LAZAROVA, M., SHAFFER, M. (2021). Expatriate work role engagement and the work-family interface. A conditional crossover and spillover perspective. Human Relations. doi:10.1177/00187267211046816. (Online first)

OUTILA, V., MIHAILOVA, I., REICHE, S., PIEKKARI, R. (2020). A Communicative perspective on the trust-control link In Russia. Journal of World Business, 55 (6), Article 100971. doi:10.1016/j.jwb.2018.11.001.

Proceedings

PELTOKORPI, V., FROESE, F. J., REICHE, S. (2021). How and when do reintegration facilitate repatriate knowledge transfer? Academy of Management Proceedings.

REICHE, S., NEELEY, T., OVERMEYER, N. (2017). Affective, cognitive and behavioral trajectories of change recipients in global organizations. Academy of Management Proceedings.

REICHE, S. (2022). Jazzing up work design. The New currency of talent retention. 5º Encuentro de Directores y Responsables de RR.HH en Despachos de Abogados. Pamplona: Universidad de Navarra.

REICHE, S., GUZMÁN, F., LAZAROVA, M., WURTZ, O. (2022). Repatriate's experience of identity strain and repatriate knowledge transfer. 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.

THOMAS, C., ERTUG, G., BUCHELI, M., ZHAO, M., REICHE, S., MARTIN, X., ... TAUSSIG, M. (2022). 2022 International Management Division Paper Development Workshop. 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.

STAHL, G. K., AKKAN, E., REICHE, S., CAPRAR, D., HAJRO, A., ZIKIK, J., ... ZELLMER-BRUHN, M. E. (2022). Immigrants’ identity orientations. Predicting the integration success of highly qualified migrants. 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.

QUINTANE, E., REICHE, S. (2022). Does turnover spread through network ties?. Network turnover contagion as resource loss. 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.

Articles in other publications

SELMER, J., DICKMAN, M., FROESE, F. J., LAURING, J., REICHE, S., SHALFER, M. A. (2021). The potential of virtual global mobility (VGM). Implications for practice and research. Journal of Global Mobility.

Edited books

OSLAND, J. S., REICHE, S., MENDENHALL, M. E., MAZNEVSKI, M. (2023). Advances in Global Leadership. Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited.

REICHE, S., TENZER, H., HARZING, A.-W. (2022). International human resource management (6th ed.). London: Sage Publications Ltd.

OSLAND, J. S., REICHE, S., SZKUDLAREK, B., MENDENHALL, M. E. (2022). Advances in Global Leadership. Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited.

OSLAND, J. S., MENDENHALL, M. E., REICHE, S., SZKUDLAREK, B. (2020). Advances in Global Leadership. Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited.

OSLAND, J. S., REICHE, S., SZKUDLAREK, B., MENDENHALL, M. E. (2019). Advances in Global Leadership. Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited.

Book Chapters

REICHE, S. (2023). Tackling grand societal challenges and designing consciousness-raising experiences inside and outside the classroom. An interview with global leadership educator Günter K. Stahl. In Osland, J.S.; Reiche, B.S.; Mendenhall, M.E. and Maznevski, M.L. (Eds.), Advances in Global Leadership (pp. 243-257). Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited.

OSLAND, J. S., BIRD, A., REICHE, S., MENDENHALL, M. E. (2023). A Model of trigger events and sensemaking in the intercultural context. A Cognitive approach to global leadership effectiveness. In Osland, J.S.; Reiche, B.S.; Mendenhall, M.E. and Maznevski, M.L. (Eds.), Advances in Global Leadership (pp. 111-138). Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited.

MAZNEVSKI, M., OSLAND, J. S., REICHE, S., MENDENHALL, M. E. (2023). Power and global leadership. Marking the transition and suggesting future directions. In Osland, J.S.; Reiche, B.S.; Mendenhall, M.E. and Maznevski, M.L. (Eds.), Advances in Global Leadership (pp. 273-287). Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited.

REICHE, S., TENZER, H., HARZING, A.-W. (2022). International Assignments. In Reiche, B.S., Tenzer, H., and Harzing, A.-W. (Eds.), International Human Mnagement (6th ed.). Chicago: Sage Publications.

KRAIMER, M. L., REICHE, S., GEORGE, M. (2022). An identity work perspective of expatriates and cross-cultural transitions. A Review and future research agenda. In Too, Soo Min & Denisi, Angelo (Eds.), Expatriates and Managing Global Mobility (pp. 258-281). Routledge.

Technical Notes

GHEMAWAT, P., REICHE, S. (2022). National Cultural Differences and Global Business. IESE, DPON-359-E.

GARCÍA, C., REICHE, S., HARZING, A.-W. (2009). Management of International Staff. IESE, DPON-79-E.

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