• Associate Professor, Kedge Business School
• European Academy of Management (EURAM)

Eren Akkan is an Associate Professor at Kedge Business School. He received his PhD from IESE Business School, Spain. His research interests span international mobility, global work, management of a diverse workforce, and the changing nature of work arrangements. Within these domains, he studies questions such as how people respond to major transitions, the evolution of social relationships, and the impact of mobility on societal and cultural transformations. His works have appeared in journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Human Resource Management, and Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. He teaches courses on cross-cultural management, organizational behavior, human resource management, and research methods. Prior to academia, he was involved in engineering, project management and account management roles in large scale multinational organizations in the telecommunications and IT industries.

• 2022–present Associate professor, Kedge Business School
• 2019–2022 Adjunct assistant professor, EMLV Paris

• 2019 IESE Business School, PhD in Management Science

• 2025 International Business Review, A self-anchoring view of forced migrants' business performance in host countries
• 2025 Personality and Individual Differences, Leader expressed humility: A meta-analysis and an agenda for future research.
• 2024 Journal of International Business Studies, Linking institutional context to the community and career embeddedness of skilled migrants: The role of destination-and origin-country identifications.
• 2023 International Journal of Human Resource Management, Fostering assigned expatriates' innovativeness via culturally intelligent supervisors: a resource gain perspective.
• 2022 Human Resource Management, How and when do prior international experiences lead to global work? A career motivation perspective
• 2022 Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, When discordant work selves yield workplace creativity: The roles of creative process engagement and relational identification with the supervisor.

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