EUROPEAN TALENT MANAGEMENT: BEYOND EXISTING TYPOLOGIES

Abstract

Talent management is a sensitive issue and is one of
the most crucial challenges that corporate executives face today. This research contributes to this
challenge. Its results, from six confidential case
studies of major European companies allow overcoming existing typologies of management talent.
They position talent management in a European
context and offer a stylized type of talent that shows
an elite of a new type. The research produces 5 managerial recommendations for European companies.