Saying goodbye to Nijmegen
“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.” Pascal Mercier, Night Train to…
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The Pensacola Beach sign in Florida
A perfect Postcrossing postcard for this week – it is very sunny here in Nijmegen – is the one I received of the Pensacola Beach sign in Florida. It is an iconic landmark from the 60s which points the way to…
Becoming a self-initiated expatriate
The past two months have seen a little less activity on this blog than I was planning on. The reason: I am soon going to be an expat myself! I have found a job as postdoctoral researcher at the University…
The Stadthuys in Malacca
This Postcrossing postcard came from Malaysia, but has a Dutch ‘background’. It shows the Stadthuys in Malacca, which might well be the oldest remaining Dutch colonial building left in Southeast Asia. It was built shortly after Malacca was captured by…
Best fit vs. best practice: the importance of context in HRM
Last week I attended the Global Conference on International Human Resource Management at Penn State University, USA. The keynote of professor Chris Brewster focused, amongst other topics, on the importance of context in Human Resource Management. While a universalist paradigm…