Global staffing and talent management in international football

Ascione, Giulio Amedeo (A.A. 2024/2025) Global staffing and talent management in international football. Tesi di Laurea in Global organization design and HRM, Luiss Guido Carli, relatore Luca Giustiniano, pp. 101. [Master's Degree Thesis]

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Abstract/Index

From local identity to global industry: understanding modern professional football. Context and relevance. Problem statement. Global staffing in international HRM: concepts, choices and the talent lens. International human resource management and the place of global staffing. Global staffing: meaning, goals and core decision architecture. Staffing orientations: ethnocentric, polycentric, geocentric and regiocentric logics. Employee categories and forms of international mobility. Why organizations transfer people: coordination, control, development and knowledge. From staffing to global talent management: the strategic talent perspective. Risks, trade-offs, and constraints of global staffing. A practical framework to be applied to professional football. Conceptual framework, analytical model and peer reviewed illustrations. Professional football as a transnational ecosystem. Identity and legitimacy as boundary conditions. Internationalization choices and governance orientation. Staffing architecture in transnational football. Strategic talent management and pivotal positions. The analytical model: constructs, dimensions and expected relationships. Operationalization: translating constructs into observable indicators. Peer reviewed evidence informed illustrations aligned to the model. Integrating the model with the thesis: coherence checks and analytical payoffs. Limitations of the framework and directions for disciplined application. Additional mechanisms: platformisation, regulation, and organizational slack. Extended operational guide: how the model can be applied consistently. Additional peer reviewed illustrations: country branding and fan perception. Model propositions: making the framework testable without oversimplifying. Governance and managerial implications for thesis closure. Governance and managerial implications and chapter contribution. Construct glossary and operational definitions for consistent usage. Extended discussion: multi-club ownership as an organizational form. HR mechanisms that operationalize the model in football organizations.

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Bibliografia: pp. 97-101.

Thesis Type: Master's Degree Thesis
Institution: Luiss Guido Carli
Degree Program: Master's Degree Programs > Master's Degree program in Global Management and Politics, English language (LM-77)
Chair: Global organization design and HRM
Thesis Supervisor: Giustiniano, Luca
Thesis Co-Supervisor: Galietti, Francesco
Academic Year: 2024/2025
Session: Extraordinary
Deposited by: Alessandro Perfetti
Date Deposited: 25 Jun 2026 07:47
Last Modified: 25 Jun 2026 07:47
URI: https://tesi.luiss.it/id/eprint/46243

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