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 Managing People in Organizations. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Prof. Reiche’s research focuses on how to navigate the global work environment on issues ranging from different forms and experiences of global mobility, work design, global leadership, the role of language in international business, cultural identity, and empowerment in global organizations. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters about how global professionals collaborate, lead and perform their work effectively, and his award-winning work appears in the leading scholarly outlets such as Academy of Management Discoveries, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Organization Science, among many others.

He has been repeatedly honored by the prestigious Academy of Management, including with the International HRM Scholarly Research Award in two consecutive years, is recipient of the Journal of International Business Studies Silver Medal for his contributions to international business research, and has received repeated Research Excellence Awards from IESE Business School. Prof. Reiche's work has been widely covered by media outlets around the globe, including The Economist, The Financial Times, Forbes, BBC, Business Insider, Handelsblatt (Germany), Die Welt (Germany), WirtschaftsWoche (Germany), Expansión (Spain), La Vanguardia (Spain), and Você RH (Brazil).

Prof. Reiche is co-editor of Advances in Global Leadership and serves as member of several editorial boards, including Academy of Management Discoveries, Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, and Personnel Psychology. He is lead editor of the bestselling textbooks International Human Resource Management (Sage, 6th edition) and Readings and Cases in International Human Resource Management (Routledge, 7th edition).

Prof. Reiche has consulted with companies such as SAP, Haier, Wacker, and Boehringer Ingelheim, and has designed, directed and delivered Custom Executive Education programs for a number of global companies, including Allied Irish Bank, Boehringer Ingelheim, Deloitte, Rijk Zwaan, Salesforce, and SAP. 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
• Global Leadership
• Knowledge Transfer
• Work Design
• Language and Cross-Cultural Management
• Talent Development and Retention

Publications

Journal Articles (refereed)

MENDENHALL, M. E., REICHE, S. (2024). Restoring a parched tributary in global mobility research. The study of expatriates as leaders. Journal of Global Mobility. (Forthcoming) STAHL, G. K., AKKAN, E., REICHE, S., HAJRO, A., ZELLMER-BRUHN, M., LAZAROVA, M., RICHTER, N. F., CAPRAR, D. V., ZIKIC, J., BJÖRKMAN, I., BREWSTER, C., CERDIN, J.-L., CLEGG, C. C., DAVOINE, E., KOVESHNIKOV, A., MAYRHOFER, W., ... ZANDER, L. (2024). Linking institutional context to the community and career embeddedness of skilled migrants: The role of destination- and origin-country identifications. Journal of International Business Studies, 55 (6), 703-722. doi:10.1057/s41267-024-00683-w. REICHE, S., GEORGE, M. (2024). Plug in, ponder, or pause? How global professionals’ prior identity tensions affected their responses to pandemic-induced disruptions. Academy of Management Discoveries, 10 (2), 192-223. doi:10.5465/amd.2022.0039. GUZMÁN, F., REICHE, S. (2024). A chorus of different tongues. Official corporate language fluency and informal influence in multinational teams. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 182, Article 104334. doi:10.1016/j.obhdp.2024.104334. REICHE, S., SHAFFER, M. (2024). Theory testing and replication studies in the global work domain. Journal of Management Scientific Reports . doi:10.1177/27550311241256558. (Online first) REICHE, S. (2023). Between interdependence and autonomy. Toward a typology of work design modes in the new world of work. Human Resource Management Journal, 33 (4), 1001-1017. doi:10.1111/1748-8583.12495. REICHE, S., DIMITROVA, M., WESTMAN, M., CHEN, S., WURTZ, O., LAZAROVA, M., SHAFFER, M. (2023). Expatriate work role engagement and the work-family interface. A conditional crossover and spillover perspective. Human Relations, 76 (3), 452-482. doi:10.1177/00187267211046816. 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.

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.

Articles in other publications

REICHE, S. (2022). So überwinden Sie im Homeoffice das Problem der dreifachen Distanz. WELT. REICHE, S., NEELEY, T. (2021). El poder de ceder. IESE Business School Insight (158), pp. 68-75. REICHE, S., NEELEY, T. (2021). The upsides of downward deference. IESE Business School Insight (158), pp. 68-75. IESE INSIGHT (2020). The Big Picture. Teleworking, the new normal? IESE Insight (156). IESE INSIGHT (2020). Teletrabajo: ¿la nueva normalidad? IESE Business School Insight (156).

Edited books

REICHE, S., STAHL, G. K., MENDENHALL, M. E., ODDOU, G. (2023). Readings and cases in international human resource management (7th ed.). Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge. 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.

Book Chapters

LAZAROVA, M., REICHE, S. (2024). Expatriate adjustment. In Mockaitis, Audra I. & Butler, Christina L. (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural Management (pp. 196–199). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. REICHE, S. (2024). La downward reference. Fomentando la iniciativa emprendedora en multinacionales. En Fité, R.M.; Nueno, P.; Mehta, K. and Vilà, J. (Eds.), Primero las personas: pensamiento emprendedor para resolver problemas empresariales (pp. 215-220). Barcelona: Gestión 2000. LAZAROVA, M., REICHE, S., CLEGG, C. (2024). Shifts in research on global mobility. In Gelfand, Michele J. & Erez, Miriam (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Cross-Cultural Organizational Behavior (pp. 583-608). Cape Town: Oxford University Press. REICHE, S., LAZAROVA, MILA, L. (2024). Repatriation. In Asmussen, C.G. ; Hashai, H. & Minbaeva, D. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of International Strategic Management (pp. 361-363). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. GHEMAWAT, P., REICHE, S. (2023). National cultural differences and global business. In Reiche, Sebastian B.; Stahl, Günter K.; Mendenhall, Mark E. ; Oddou, Gary R. (Eds.), Readings and Cases in International Human Resource Management (7th Edition) (pp. 145-165). Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge.

Cases

ALMANDOZ, J., REICHE, S., TATGE, L. (2023). American Express: Deciding on a Hybrid Work Model After the COVID-19 Crisis (A). IESE, DPO-814-E. ALMANDOZ, J., REICHE, S., TATGE, L. (2023). American Express: decidir sobre un modelo de trabajo híbrido tras la crisis de COVID-19 (A). IESE, DPO-814. ALMANDOZ, J., REICHE, S., TATGE, L. (2023). American Express: decidir sobre un modelo de trabajo híbrido tras la crisis de COVID-19 (B). IESE, DPO-815. ALMANDOZ, J., REICHE, S., TATGE, L. (2023). American Express: Deciding on a Hybrid Work Model After the COVID-19 Crisis (B). IESE, DPO-815-E. LEE, Y.-T., REICHE, S. (2022). Uwa Ode: Embracing Life and Career across Cultures. IESE, DPO-760-E.

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.