The Changing Face of Work and The Workplace: Navigating the Nexus between Talent Mobility and Organisations’ Wider Social Good in Developing Economies

<p>Despite talent mobility’s explosion in the HRM and particularly the global talent management transformation research and literature, studies in this important area have not gone beyond the traditional use of Human Capital Theory and Knowledge-Based View (KBV) to capture the opportunities and challenges faced by organisations within a predominantly American and Anglo-Saxon context. The increasing demands to investigate and revisit the critical challenges posed to organisations from the neglected developing countries (e.g., Nigeria) has therefore led to this developmental paper. Drawing from HCT and KBV, the aim of the current exploration is to investigate 3 identified case studies in Nigeria and test the impact of traditional HCT and KBV aspects in each to ascertain the extent of the dynamic interplay between talent mobility, organisational success, tangible and intangible resource utilisation, and wider socio-ecological impacts in Nigeria. </p>\n<p>Based on HCT and KBV, we plan to empirically investigate the institutional and structural factors/challenges that enable and/or hinder the adoption of strategic talent mobility strategies for organisations’ localised growth and innovation, and their wider competitiveness and contributions to socio-ecological development. To do so, we critique the HCT and KBV theories and the nexus of their application onto developing economies’ transformational and human capability to see the extent to which developing economies’ workplaces are strategically capable addressing the wider socio-economic and ecological disruptions caused by talent mobility. We aim to develop a holistic framework highlighting which bundle of intangible and tangible resources can help institutionally weak firms to sustain their competitivity and thereby progress knowledge and understanding on how talent mobility can be a force for organisational and wider social good. </p>