TY - JOUR

T1 - Talent Development and Its Role in Shaping Absorptive Capacity in Emerging Market Firms

T2 - The Case of Russia

AU - Latukha, Marina O.

N1 - Latukha, M. O. Talent Development and Its Role in Shaping Absorptive Capacity in Emerging Market Firms : The Case of Russia // Advances in Developing Human Resources. – 2018. – Volume 20, Issue 4. – P. 444-459.

PY - 2018/11/1

Y1 - 2018/11/1

N2 - The Problem: The overall ability to create and transfer knowledge is one of the main competitive advantages for companies from emerging economies and becomes their performance driver. As human resource development (HRD) and talent development (TD), in particular, aim to extend employees’ capabilities related to innovative thinking, creativity, and their key competences, which can be necessary for knowledge creation and development, TD can be associated with a firm’s absorptive capacity; however, their relationship remains underresearched. Although some studies claim about grounds for absorptive capacity, lack of analysis of absorptive capacity dimensions, specified as knowledge acquisition, assimilation, transformation, and exploitation, and its connection to TD in the emerging market context can be observed especially with the relationship to firm performance in Russia. The Solution: We investigate the influence of TD on firm’s absorptive capacity in emerging market contexts, more specifically in Russia, and confirm the link between TD in Russia and knowledge assimilation, knowledge transformation, knowledge exploitation, and knowledge acquisition. The Stakeholders: We show the new perspective of talent management, in general, and TD, in particular, for HRD area, showing the leading role of TD in emerging market contexts that should be in a primary agenda for both researchers and practitioners.

AB - The Problem: The overall ability to create and transfer knowledge is one of the main competitive advantages for companies from emerging economies and becomes their performance driver. As human resource development (HRD) and talent development (TD), in particular, aim to extend employees’ capabilities related to innovative thinking, creativity, and their key competences, which can be necessary for knowledge creation and development, TD can be associated with a firm’s absorptive capacity; however, their relationship remains underresearched. Although some studies claim about grounds for absorptive capacity, lack of analysis of absorptive capacity dimensions, specified as knowledge acquisition, assimilation, transformation, and exploitation, and its connection to TD in the emerging market context can be observed especially with the relationship to firm performance in Russia. The Solution: We investigate the influence of TD on firm’s absorptive capacity in emerging market contexts, more specifically in Russia, and confirm the link between TD in Russia and knowledge assimilation, knowledge transformation, knowledge exploitation, and knowledge acquisition. The Stakeholders: We show the new perspective of talent management, in general, and TD, in particular, for HRD area, showing the leading role of TD in emerging market contexts that should be in a primary agenda for both researchers and practitioners.

KW - SCOPUS

KW - WOS

KW - absorptive capacity

KW - human resource development

KW - talent development

KW - SCOPUS

KW - WOS

KW - knowledge

KW - Russia

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85055181093&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/1523422318803087

DO - 10.1177/1523422318803087

M3 - Article

VL - 20

SP - 444

EP - 459

JO - Advances in Developing Human Resources

JF - Advances in Developing Human Resources

SN - 1523-4223

IS - 4

ER -