The study investigates talent management practices in Russian and foreign companies and their influence on a company's performance. In our work, foreign companies are foreignowned companies (multinational or global) that operate in the Russian market and their headquarters are located outside the Russian Federation. Attention is paid to the analysis of the factors that support talent management implementation. As the results of the research are based on a comparative analysis of differences and peculiarities in talent practices in Russian and foreign companies, the paper explores and provides a number of ideas and conclusions about talent management elaboration, realization and talent practices improvement in the Russian context. Our data show that talent management practices are influenced by a number of factors that are different, in parts, in Russian and foreign companies. Supplementary analysis also suggests that the positive connection between talent management efforts and a company's performance can be found.

This article investigates the relationship between talent management (TM), absorptive capacity (AC), and firm performance. We build a theoretical framework and examine the mediating role of a firm's AC in TM-performance relationships in the contexts of China and Russia. We use a sample of 120 Chinese and Russian firms to provide empirical evidence of our hypotheses. Our results show for both Chinese and Russian firms, a well-developed TM system positively influences a firm's ability to acquire, assimilate, and exploit knowledge as well as increase the overall level of a firm's AC. We also found support for the argument that TM has an indirect positive effect on firm performance through its AC; moreover, the effect is stronger for Chinese firms, specifically, within the link between AC and performance. K E Y W O R D Sabsorptive capacity, China, firm performance, Russia, talent management

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This study aims to prove the infl uence of talent management (TM) practices on competitive advantage (CA) in internationalized Russian fi rms. As a phenomenon, TM is rather new and controversial in the emerging-market context, and despite the amount of research devoted to TM practices, there is little said about how TM infl uences CA in emerging-market fi rms. This study explores the peculiarities of TM

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