Beyond measuring the human resources management-organizational performance link: Applying critical realist meta-theory

Organization

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 677-699

  Hesketh, Anthony ^a,b   Fleetwood, Steve ^a,c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Closed systems; Event regularities; Methodology; Ontology; Powers; Prediction; Reflexive performance; Science; Tendencies; Tendential prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747613766     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508406067009     Document Type: Article

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