Talent Management: Quo Vadis?

The fundamental intellectual utility of talent management, coupled with its manifestations in professional practice, and how aspects of both might better be observed and under-stood, lie at the very heart of this special issue. In proposing the special issue originally, and in subsequently developing and framing our thinking in order to ensure that our initial ideas coalesced into a fully-fledged and coherent call for papers, we had several questions which we felt were worth pursuing and which ultimately informed that final call. Those questions can be broadly classified into three wide-ranging domains. Firstly, there were questions relating to the conceptualization, theoretical development and framing of the field. Secondly, there were those focused on the exact contours and anatomy of practice implementation an devaluation. Finally, there were particular questions centring on stakeholder perceptions and priorities related to talent management adoption.