highlighted that talent management in the international context requires international HR managers to ”develop a much deeper level of understanding about the links between the business agenda and the capabilities of the most talented people in the organization, and also understand the potential for mobility around these people” (p. 121). This attempted “calibration” of talent on a global basis often requires multinational employers, especially HR managers, to think about talent on a more global basis and also to think about “who they are” and “what they stand for” (Sparrow et al., 2004: 121). Also talent management on a global basis has some broader dimensions and shows that, in practice, talent markets still operate very much in the national contexts of the particular countries (Harris et al., 2003).