Sebastian Reiche

B. Sebastian Reiche
Born1977 (age 48–49)
Hanover, Germany
OccupationsProfessor and researcher
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Melbourne (PhD), University of Hannover (BA / MEBA)
Academic work
InstitutionsIESE Business School
Main interests
Global work environment

B. Sebastian Reiche (Hanover, 1977) is a German management educator, professor and researcher. An expert in the global work environment, he is a professor at IESE Business School since 2007. He has numerous academic publications to his name and is an editor and member of several scientific journal editorial boards. Throughout his career, he has received various awards, including the International HRM Scholarly Research Award from the Academy of Management for two consecutive years.

Academic and professional career

Reiche has a PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia. Previously, he was B.A./Master in Economics and Business Administration by the University of  Hannover. Since 2007 he is professor of Managing People in Organizations at IESE Business School.

His research focuses on the global work environment, talent mobility, work design, global leadership, and the role of culture and language in international business. He has published many articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and chapters in edited books. His research work has been published, among others, in Academy of Management Discoveries; Academy of Management Journal; Journal of International Business Studies; Journal of Management Studies; Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes; and Organization Science.

He is an associate editor of Human resource management, and co-editor of Advances in Global Leadership. He is also a member of the editorial board of other scientific outlets, such as the Academy of Management Discoveries, Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, and Personnel Psychology. He is also member of IESE Insight Business School Magazine's editorial board.

His research work has received several awards: by the Academy of Management (Scholarly Research Award in International Human Resource Management in 2012 and 2013), the Journal of International Business Studies Silver Medal, the Human Resource Management Journal 2023 Best Article Award, and the Research Excellence Award from IESE Business School (2022).

He contributes to leading newspapers in several countries: The Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, BBC, IMD, La Vanguardia, and El País. He regularly writes a blog called ‘Expatriatus’.

Main publications

Books

  • Reiche, B.S. (2026). Proximity. How to balance belonging and difference in today’s workplace. Bloomsbury, USA: Bloomsbury Publishing.
  • Reiche, B.S., Harzing, A.-W., & Tenzer, H. (2026). International Human Resource Management (7th edition). London: Sage.
  • Reiche, B.S., Stahl, G.K., Mendenhall, M.E., & Oddou, G. (2024). Readings and Cases in International Human Resource Management (7th edition). New York: Routledge.

Research articles

  • Guzman, F.A., & Reiche, B.S. (2024). A chorus of different tongues: Official corporate language fluency and informal influence in multinational teams. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 182: 104334.
  • Neeley, T.B., & Reiche, B.S. (2022). How global leaders gain power through downward deference and reduction of social distance. Academy of Management Journal, 65(1): 11–34.
  • Reiche, B.S., Harzing, A.-W., & Kraimer, M.L. (2009). The role of international assignees’ social capital in creating intellectual capital: A cross-level model. Journal of International Business Studies, 40(3): 509–526.

Book chapters

  • Reiche, B.S., & Lazarova, M.B. (2024). Repatriation. In C. Asmussen, N. Hashai & D. Minbaeva (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of International Strategic Management, pp. 361–363. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
  • Lazarova, M.B., Reiche, B.S., & Clegg, C. (2024). Shifts in research on global mobility. In: M. Gelfand & M. Erez (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Cross-Cultural Organizational Behavior, pp. 583–608. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Ghemawat, P., & Reiche, B.S. (2017). Cultural distance and national cultural differences. In P. Ghemawat (Ed.), The Laws of Globalization and Business Applications, pp. 239–279. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

References

  1. ↑ Ruiz, Alfonso Simón (3 January 2015). "Cómo no arruinar su negocio con un mal expatriado". Cinco Días (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  2. ↑ "Previous Award Winners – HR". hr.aom.org. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
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  7. ↑ "Human Resource Management Editorial Board". Wiley Online Library. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  8. ↑ "Harzing.com". Harzing.com. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  9. ↑ "Discoveries Editorial Team". Academy of Management. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  10. ↑ "Editorial Board: Journal of Management". Sage Journals. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  11. ↑ "Journal of International Business Studies". SpringerLink. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  12. ↑ "Previous Award Winners – HR". hr.aom.org. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  13. ↑ Verbeke, Alain; Fariborzi, Hadi (1 December 2019). "Celebrating 50 Years of JIBS Anniversary Issue and Medal Awardees". Journal of International Business Studies. 50 (9): 1441–1447. doi:10.1057/s41267-019-00272-2. ISSN 1478–6990
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  15. ↑ yrivero (10 March 2023). "Alumni Association honors IESE's best research in 2022". IESE. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  16. ↑ Reiche, Sebastian (25 September 2017). "How MBAs can develop cross-cultural skills". Financial Times. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  17. ↑ "Opinion | Workers of the World, Unite!". The Wall Street Journal. 29 September 2024. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  18. ↑ "Not-so-happy returns". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  19. ↑ Alsop, Ronald. "When expats return home, what's next?". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  20. ↑ "Sebastian Reiche – IMD business school for management and leadership courses". www.imd.org. 10 January 2025. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  21. ↑ Reiche, Sebastian (19 October 2025). "La brecha salarial de género persiste a pesar de las cuotas". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  22. ↑ "Sebastian Reiche | UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab". en.unesco.org. Retrieved 12 November 2025.