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Dr Angelika Zimmermann
Lecturer in International Business and Strategy
Dr Angelika Zimmermann’s research focuses on issues of international cooperation at the level of individuals, teams, and their organisational strategic context, in the areas of
- International/virtual teams
- International human resource management
- Intercultural training
- Expatriate adjustment
Angelika Zimmermann is committed to a qualitative methodology. For her MSc in Occupational Psychology at the University of Sheffield, she has examined work and life adjustment of German expatriate managers in the People’s Republic of China. This led to her PhD on mutual adjustment in bi-national teams across four combinations of nationalities, including German-English, German-Japanese, German-Indian and German-Austrian teams in major German firms.
After working as an internal consultant for intercultural support and training at the Robert Bosch Group for four years, Angelika Zimmermann joined Loughborough University in 2007.
Since then, she has conducted research within the interlinked areas of international human resource management and transnational team work. With her colleagues Trevor Buck and Xiaohui Liu, she has investigated the role of human resource management for levels of employee turnover at firms of different nationality in China.
Based on an extensive literature review, she has further argued for the need to take a configurational perspective on interpersonal relationships in transnational, virtual teams. As part of this endeavor, she has conducted qualitative research on ‘offshoring attitudes’, investigating how German engineers evaluate the consequences of offshoring for their firm, employees, and relationships within transnational teams.
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