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 codirects 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 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. These topics also reflect her 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 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). Marion also 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 The German Academic Association of Business Research (VHB). Further she contributed as the German Ambassador to the HR division of the Academy of Management and has established together with international colleagues a webinar series on international human resource management (https://www.youtube.com/c/ihrmwebinarseries). 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.

PUBLICATIONS
AWARDS AND HONORS

International Human Resource Management

Cengage Learning, 452

Research and expertise

ESCP Innovation Award 2019

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

Research and expertise

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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

Academic Articles

2025

Can Global Talent Management be good for society?

Academic Articles

2025

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

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

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

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

Academic Articles

2023

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

Academic Articles

2023

Developing Cultural Intelligence in a Serious Game-Centered Blended Course: Insights from Experiential Learning Theory and Empirical Evidence

Books

2023

International Human Resource Management

Research and expertise

ESCP Innovation Award 2019

Research and expertise