Practitioner talk: The changing textscape of HRM and emergence of HR business partnership

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 873-898

  Keegan, Anne ^a   Francis, Helen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Edinburgh Napier University   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business partnership; CDA (critical discourse analysis); HR; Transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952002274     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585191003729341     Document Type: Article

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