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Farndale, E., Paauwe, J., Boselie, P. & Horak, S., 2025.
Corporate Scandals as Punctuating Events That Change Human Resource Roles.
Journal of Management, 51(3): 967-998. DOI: 10.1177/01492063231226137, link: https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063231226137
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Horak, S., Jiang, C., & Festing, M., 2025.
Informal, Formal or Hybrid? How Expatriates in European MNC Subsidiaries in South Korea Manage Hierarchy to Enhance Organizational Agility.
International Journal of Manpower, forthcoming. DOI: 10.1108/IJM-03-2024-0155, link: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-03-2024-0155
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Farndale, E., Horak, S., Piyanontalee, R., Puffer, S. M., & Vidovi?, M., 2025.
Looking back to look forward: disruption, innovation and future trends in International Human Resource Management.
International Business Review, forthcoming. DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2024.102362, link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2024.102362
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Freiberg, T., Horak, S., & Bonchev, B., 2024.
Sustainable Talent Acquisition: Five Best Practices for Referral-based Hiring.
Mercer White Papers, Mercer, New York. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.36153.58726, Link
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Alsarhan, F., Horak, S., & Darwish, T. K., 2024.
Relational Gatekeeper Behaviour of HR Managers in the Middle East: The Role of Informal Networks.
International Journal of Human Resource Management, 35(16), 2635-2673. DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2024.2359517, link: https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2024.2359517
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Horak, S., Klein, A., Ahlstrom, D., & Li, X., 2024.
Resilience or Decline of Informal Networks? Examining the Role of Trust Context in Network Societies.
International Business Review, forthcoming. DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2024.102301, link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2024.102301
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Horak, S.; Freiberg, T.; Bonchev, B.; Eger, M., 2024.
Strategic AI Adoption in Talent Acquisition Today: Overcoming Barriers and Unveiling Future Possibilities.
Mercer White Papers, Mercer, New York. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.13923.77608, Link
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Horak, S., 2024.
Informal Networks.
In C. Asmussen, N. Hashai, & D. Minbaeva (Eds.), Encyclopedia of International Strategic Management (pp. 166-167). Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.
DOI: 10.4337/9781800884045.ch45, link:https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800884045.ch45
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van Bakel, M. & Horak, S., 2024.
Social Capital Theory.
In Hutchings, K., Michailova, S., & Wilkinson, A. A Guide to Key Theories for Human Resource Management Research (pp. 261-267), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
DOI: 10.4337/9781035308767.ch33, Link: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035308767.ch33
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Horak, S.; Abosag, I.; Hutchings, K.; Alsarhan, F.; Ali, S.; Al-Twal, A.; Weir, D.; ALHussan, F.B., & AL-Husan, F.B., 2023.
Questioning the Appropriateness of Examining Guanxi in a Wasta Environment: Why Context Should be Front and Center in Informal Network Research.
Management and Organization Review, 19(5), 1040-1045. DOI: 10.1017/mor.2023.26, link: https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2023.26
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Horak, S. & Suseno, Y., 2023.
Informal Networks, Informal Institutions, and Social Exclusion in the Workplace: Insights from Subsidiaries of Multinational Corporations in Korea.
Journal of Business Ethics, 186(3), 633-655. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-022-05244-5, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-022-05244-5
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Minbaeva, D.; Ledeneva, A.; Muratbekova-Touron, M., & Horak, S. (2023).
Explaining the persistence of informal institutions: The role of informal networks.
Academy of Management Review, 48(3), 556-574. DOI: 10.5465/amr.2020.0224, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amr.2020.0224
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Horak, S. & Paik, Y., 2023.
Informal Network Context: Deepening the Knowledge and Extending the Boundaries of Social Network Research in International Human Resource Management.
International Journal of Human Resource Management, 34(12), 2367-2403. DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2022.2090268, Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2022.2090268
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Jakobsen, M.; Worm, V, & Horak, S., 2023.
Compassion in the International Business Studies? Prospects for Future Research
critical perspectives on international business, forthcoming. DOI: 10.1108/cpoib-01-2021-0012, link: https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-01-2021-0012
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Horak, S. & Bader, V. 2023.
Persistence and strengths of informal networks - Clientelism in the post-Soviet Union.
European Journal of International Management, 19(2), 265-294. DOI: 10.1504/EJIM.2020.10021180, link: https://doi.org/10.1504/EJIM.2020.10021180
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Arya, B.; Horak, S.; Bacou?l-Jentjens, S. & Ismail, K., 2023.
Leading Entrepreneurial Sustainability Initiatives in Emerging Economies.
International Journal of Emerging Markets, 18(1), 64-85. DOI: 10.1108/IJOEM-08-2020-0951, Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJOEM-08-2020-0951
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Stefanidis, A.; Casselman, M. & Horak, S., 2022.
Twenty-five Years of Management Research on Poverty: A Systematic Review of the Literature and a Research Agenda.
Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility, forthcoming. DOI: 10.1111/beer.12503, link: https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12503
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Klein, A.; Horak, S.; Ahlf, H. & Nihalani, K., 2022.
Influence of Informal Institutions on Commitment to Customer Service in Confucian Asia.
Management Decision, forthcoming. DOI: 10.1108/MD-10-2021-1286, link: https://doi.org/10.1108/MD-10-2021-1286
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Heinrich, T.; Arya, B.; Haering, A., & Horak, S., 2022.
Costly information acquisition: The influence of stakeholder earnings.
Journal of Economic Psychology, in press. DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2022.102504, link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2022.102504
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Lee, J.; Paik, Y.; Horak, S., & Yang, I., 2022.
Turning a liability into an asset of foreignness: Managing informal networks in Korea.
Business Horizons, 65(3), 351-364. DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2021.04.002, link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2021.04.002
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Horak, S.; Klein, A.; Li, X. (2022).
Can general and particularistic types of trust mix? Advancing the trust (dis-)continuity debate in a Chinese context.
International Journal of Emerging Markets, 17(5), 1273-1291. DOI: 10.1108/IJOEM-07-2020-0745, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJOEM-07-2020-0745
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Horak, S.; Afiouni, F.; Bian, Y.; Ledeneva, A.; Muratbekova-Touron, M., Fey, C., 2020.
Informal Networks: Dark Sides, Bright Sides, and Unexplored Dimensions.
Management and Organization Review, 16(3), 511-542. DOI: 10.1017/mor.2020.28, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mor.2020.28
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Yang, I.; Horak, S. & Kakabadse, N.K., 2021.
An Integrative Ethical Approach to Leader Favoritism.
Business Ethics: A European Review, 30(1), 90-101. DOI: 10.1111/beer.12309, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/beer.12309
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Yang, I.; Horak, S. & Chi, S.-C., 2021.
Leader humor effectiveness ? The divergent dynamics of leader humor over time in East Asia and North America.
Thunderbird International Business Review, 63(3), 383-395. DOI: 10.1002/tie.22180, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tie.22180
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Horak, S., 2020.
Are Informal Networks Predominantly an Emerging Market Phenomenon? (pp. 125-137).
In C. Storz & M. Taube (eds.), Firms, Institutions, and the State in East Asia: A Festschrift in Honour of Werner Pascha. Marburg: Metropolis.
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Farndale, E.; Horak, S.; Phillips, J. & Beamond, M., 2019.
Facing complexity, crisis and risk: Opportunities and challenges in International Human Resource Management.
Thunderbird International Business Review, 61(3), 465-470. DOI: 10.1002/tie.22037, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tie.22037
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Horak, S., 2018.
From Cross-Cultural Economic Experiments to Experimental Indigenous Management Research.
Management and Organization Review, 14(4), 651-691. DOI: 10.1017/mor.2018.39, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mor.2018.39
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Ahlf, H.; Horak, S.; Klein, A. & Yoon, S.W., 2019.
Demographic Homophily, Communication, and Trust in Intra-Organizational Business Relationships.
Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, 34(2), 474-487. DOI: 10.1108/JBIM-03-2018-0093, Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JBIM-03-2018-0093
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Horak, S. & Long, C., 2018.
Dissolving the Paradox: Toward a Yin-Yang Perspective on the Power and Trust Antagonism in Collaborative Business Relationships.
Supply Chain Management, 23(6), 573-590. DOI: 10.1108/SCM-01-2018-0013, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/SCM-01-2018-0013
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Klein, A.; Horak, S.; Bacouel-Jentjens, S. & Li, X., 2020.
Does culture frame technological innovativeness? A study of millennials in triad countries.
European Journal of International Management, forthcoming. DOI: 10.1504/EJIM.2019.10016816, link: https://doi.org/10.1504/EJIM.2019.10016816
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Horak, S. 2019.
Yongo
Global Informality Project (INF), 2019. Online, based on The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality (Ed. A. Ledeneva)
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Horak, S. 2019.
Jinmyaku
Global Informality Project (INF), 2019. Online, based on The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality (Ed. A. Ledeneva)
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Horak, S., Taube, M.; Yang, I. & Restel, K., 2019.
Two not of a kind: Social network theory and informal social networks in East Asia.
Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 36(2), 349-372. DOI: 10.1007/s10490-018-9602-z, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10490-018-9602-z
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Horak, S.; Klein, A.; Svirina, A., 2020.
Trust, Reciprocity and Reputation in Informal Networks in Post-Soviet Russia.
European Journal of International Management, forthcoming. DOI: 10.1504/EJIM.2019.10016844, link: https://doi.org/10.1504/EJIM.2019.10016844
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Yang, I. & Horak, S., 2018.
Emotions, indigenous affective ties, and social network theory - The case of South Korea.
Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 36(2), 395-414. DOI: 10.1007/s10490-017-9555-7, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10490-017-9555-7
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Horak, S., Farndale, E., Brannen, M.Y. & Collings, D., 2019.
International Human Resource Management in an Era of Political Nationalism.
Thunderbird International Business Review, 61(3), 471-480. DOI: 10.1002/tie.21959, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tie.21959
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Horak, S., Arya, B. & Ismail, K., 2018.
Organizational Sustainability Determinants in Different Cultural Settings: A Conceptual Framework.
Business Strategy and the Environment, 27(4), 528-546. DOI: 10.1002/bse.2018, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bse.2018
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Horak, S. & Yang, I., 2019.
Whither seniority? Career progression and performance orientation in South Korea.
International Journal of Human Resource Management, 30(9), 1419-1447. DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2017.1362659, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2017.1362659
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Yang, I. & Horak, S., 2019.
Formal and informal practices in contemporary Korean management.
The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 30(22), 3113-3137. DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2017.1342683, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2017.1342683
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Horak, S. & Yang, I., 2018.
A complementary perspective on business ethics in South Korea? Civil religion, common misconceptions, and overlooked social structures.
Business Ethics: A European Review, 27(1), 1-14. DOI: 10.1111/beer.12153, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/beer.12153
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Horak, S., 2016.
Decision-making behavior, gender differences, and cultural context variables.
International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 16(3), 281-299. DOI: 10.1177/1470595816665131, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470595816665131
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Rowley, C.; Bae, J.; Horak, S. & Bacouel-Jentjens, S., 2017.
Distinctiveness of Human Resource Management in the Asia Pacific Region: Typologies and Levels.
International Journal of Human Resource Management, 28(10), 1393-1408. DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2016.1189151, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2016.1189151
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Horak, S. & Cui, J.J., 2017.
Firm Size, Financial Performance and Risk Behavior of Gender-Diversified Boards in the Chinese Automotive Industry ? Initial Insights.
Personnel Review, 46(4), 847-866. DOI: 10.1108/PR-10-2015-0274, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/PR-10-2015-0274
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Horak, S. & Nihalani, K. 2016.
Social Networks, Vertical Core Competencies and Sales Management in Korea.
Management Decision, 54(8), 1929-1946. DOI: 10.1108/MD-06-2015-0230, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/MD-06-2015-0230
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Horak, S., 2018.
Join in or opt out? A normative-ethical analysis of affective ties and networks in South Korea.
Journal of Business Ethics, 149(1), 207-220. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-016-3125-7, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-016-3125-7
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Horak, S. & Yang, I., 2016.
Affective networks, informal ties, and the limits of expatriate effectiveness.
International Business Review, 25(5), 1030-1042. DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2016.01.006, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2016.01.006
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Horak, S. & Restel, K., 2016.
A dynamic typology of informal institutions: Learning from the case of Guanxi.
Management and Organization Review, 12(3), 525-546. DOI: 10.1017/mor.2015.51, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mor.2015.51
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Horak, S. & Taube, M., 2016.
Same but different? Similarities and fundamental differences of informal social networks in China (guanxi) and Korea (yongo).
Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 33(3), 595-616. DOI: 10.1007/s10490-015-9452-x, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10490-015-9452-x
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Horak, S., 2017.
The informal dimension of Human Resource Management in Korea - Yongo, recruiting practices and career progression.
International Journal of Human Resource Management, 28(10), 1409-1432. DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2015.1089062, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2015.1089062
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Horak, S., 2015.
Extreme males - balanced females: sharing behavior in Korea.
Gender in Management: An International Journal, 30(8), 652 - 662. DOI: 10.1108/GM-12-2014-0121, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/GM-12-2014-0121
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Horak, S. & Klein, A., 2016.
Persistence of informal social networks in East Asia: Evidence from South Korea.
Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 33(3), 673-694. DOI: 10.1007/s10490-015-9416-1, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10490-015-9416-1
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Horak, S., 2015.
Culture or anonymity? Differences in proposer behaviour in Korea and Germany.
International Journal of Psychology, 50(5), 397-401. DOI: 10.1002/ijop.12142, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12142
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Horak, S., 2015.
The multi-dimensional influence of informal social networks in Korea? Propositions for future management research.
Journal of General Management, 40(2), 47-65. DOI: 10.1177/030630701404000204, link: https://doi.org/10.1177/030630701404000204
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Horak, S., 2015.
Approaching Korean business and management ideals through the lens of Yongo. A scholar-practitioner perspective.
Journal of Asia-Pacific Business, 16(3), 210-222. DOI: 10.1080/10599231.2015.1062315, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10599231.2015.1062315
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Saeki, Y. & Horak, S., 2014.
Trust and the cultivation of relation-specific skills. Evidence from a multinational automotive supplier in Japan and Germany.
Management Decision, 52(8), 1433- 1450. DOI: 10.1108/MD-09-2013-0460, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/MD-09-2013-0460
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Horak, S., 2014.
Antecedents and characteristics of informal relation-based networks in Korea: Yongo, Yonjul and Inmaek.
Asia Pacific Business Review, 20(1), 78-108. DOI: 10.1080/13602381.2013.791567, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13602381.2013.791567
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