Marion Festing 2011

Prof. Dr. Marion Festing

Research Centers

Marion has founded ESCP’s Talent Management Institute and the Excellence Centre for Intercultural Management, Diversity and Inclusion, which both link academic and practitioner communities by creating new knowledge and building platforms for networking and exchange. She also serves as the co-scientific director of the Women in Finance Chair and contributes to the ESCP Research Centers of Well-being and International Business.

Research Interests

The topics addressed in the research centers also reflect Marion’s research interests, which include diversity, equity and inclusion as well as in international human resource management and talent management in various institutional and cultural contexts. She has published in journals such as Human Resource Management, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Review, Academy of Management Perspectives, German Journal of Human Resource Management or Journal of World Business. As part of a tricontinental author team she has written the leading textbook on International Human Resource Management (8th ed., Cengage 2023) together with Peter J. Dowling and Allen D. Engle.

Current Research Topics

Currently the Chair of Human Resource Management and Intercultural Leadership conducts Research Projects on the follogwing subjects:

  • International HRM with special emphasis on emerging countries
  • Global Talent Management
  • Global Careers
  • Intercultural Learning and Intercultural Competence
  • Intercultural Management
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Sustainable Human Resource Management
  • Non-financial Reporting and Human Resource Management
  • New Ways of Working and Human Resource Management

Latest research results are displayed on the Publication Page.