Festing Marion | ESCP Business School

Marion Festing

Full Professor of Human Resource Management and Intercultural Leadership

Department : Work & Human Relations
Campus : Berlin

Marion Festing (PhD) is Professor of Human Resource Management and Intercultural Leadership at ESCP Business School’s Berlin campus. She has contributed to ESCP’s development in recent years as the Rector/Dean of the Berlin campus, the former Associate Dean for Research of ESCP Europe, and the holder of the Renault Chair of Intercultural Management. Currently, she co-directs the Women in Finance Chair together with Almudena Canibano and serves as the academic director of the Women in Leadership executive programs in Berlin. Marion 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. These topics also reflect her research interests, which include diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as 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, and 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). Marion has also served as the Editor-in-Chief of the German Journal of Human Resource Management and as the chairperson of the human resource management section in the German Academic Association of Business Research (VHB). Furthermore, she contributed as the German Ambassador to the HR division of the Academy of Management and, together with international colleagues, established a webinar series on international human resource management (YouTube series ). In terms of teaching innovations, she contributed to a MOOC on Intercultural Management and developed the award-winning Serious Game Series “Moving Tomorrow – A Cultural Journey” together with Tobias Schumacher.

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Global employees and exogenous shocks: considering positive psychological capital as a personal resource in international human resource management

JOURNAL OF WORLD BUSINESS, 58 (3), 101444

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Financial Institutions and Corporate Finance

04 June 2026 - 05 June 2025
07.00 am - 02.00 pm

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AI in Higher Education Summit 2026 – Paris, 17–18 March

17 - 18 March 2026
07.00 am - 05.20 pm

Moving Tomorrow - An Intercultural Journey. Seriopus Game for Teaching Intercultural Management, Diversity and Inclusion

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Financial Institutions and Corporate Finance

04 June 2026 - 05 June 2025
07.00 am - 02.00 pm

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AI in Higher Education Summit 2026 – Paris, 17–18 March

17 - 18 March 2026
07.00 am - 05.20 pm

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Academic Articles

2025

The role of mandatory non-financial reporting in corporate sustainability: A qualitative study on HRM in German corporations

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2025

Organizational responses to non-financial reporting legislation in Germany and Poland — Qualitative study and explanatory framework

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2025

Can Global Talent Management be good for society?

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2025

Informal, Formal, or Hybrid – How Expatriates in European MNC Subsidiaries in South Korea Manage Hierarchy to Enhance Organizational Agility

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2025

Resource-enriched talent pools through talent sharing—the role of social capital in interorganizational collaborations

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2025

Between Tradition and Modernity - The Overlooked Dimension of Informal Networks in Female Leadership in Korea

Academic Articles

2024

Understanding technology-driven work arrangements from a complexity perspective: a systematic literature review and an agenda for future research

Academic Articles

2024

Toward a Mid-Range Design Theory for Developing Pedagogically Effective Serious Games

Conference Presentations

2024

International Experience and the Subjective Career Success of Global Employees: A Career Construction Perspective

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2023

Global employees and exogenous shocks: considering positive psychological capital as a personal resource in international human resource management

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ESCP Innovation Award 2019

Moving Tomorrow - An Intercultural Journey. Seriopus Game for Teaching Intercultural Management, Diversity and Inclusion

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