'Best practices... in spite of performance': Just a matter of imitation?

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 987-1003

  Paauwe, Jaap ^a   Boselie, Paul ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Best practices adoption; HRM; Institutional theory co evolution; Resource based view

Indexed keywords

EID: 22744445960     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585190500120798     Document Type: Article

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