Migrant CEOs: Barriers and Strategies on the Way to the Top

Céline Legrand, Akram Al Ariss and Nikos Bozionelos ()
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Céline Legrand: Audencia Business School
Akram Al Ariss: TBS - Toulouse Business School
Nikos Bozionelos: EM - EMLyon Business School

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Abstract: This study discusses the main barriers that qualified migrants face in their route towards becoming chief executive officers (CEOs) along with the strategies they employ in their quest to reach the top. The study was conducted in France, a leading economic power with a long history of migration. A relational analytic framework was adopted, where in-depth interviews with migrant CEOs were triangulated with accounts from native CEOs, organizational leaders, and institutional actors. It emerged that meso- and macro-level factors created powerful barriers to advancement, while migrant CEOs tended to deploy four career strategies, two of them reactive – adaptation/adjustment and overcompensation – and the other two proactive – differentiation and manoeuvring. In addition, substantial differences were identified in the accounts of migrant CEOs and the other participants as to the existence of barriers and awareness of these by organizational actors.

Keywords: Migrants; CEOs; career barriers; career strategies; relational analytic framework (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-02-27
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Published in European Management Review, 2018, 16 (3), pp.597-615. ⟨10.1111/emre.12166⟩

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DOI: 10.1111/emre.12166

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