Framing the implementation of HRM innovation: HR professionals vs line managers in a construction company

Personnel Review

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 472-491

  Bondarouk, Tanya ^a   Looise, Jan Kees ^a   Lempsink, Bart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b Van Buren Bouwmaterialen BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Human resource management; Human resource strategies; Innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349632604     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480910978009     Document Type: Article

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