Exploring human capital: Putting 'human' back into strategic human resource management

Human Resource Management Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 93-104

  Wright, Patrick M ^a   Mcmahan, Gary C ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

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EID: 79952599948     PISSN: 09545395     EISSN: 09545395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-8583.2010.00165.x     Document Type: Article

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