A contingency framework for the delivery of HR practices

Human Resource Management Review

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 139-159

  Lepak, David P ^a   Bartol, Kathryn M ^b   Erhardt, Niclas L ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Human resource practices; In house; Information technology; Outsourcing; Transactional; Transformational

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844528812     PISSN: 10534822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrmr.2005.06.001     Document Type: Article

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