The whole is more than the sum of its parts? How HRM is configured in nonprofit organizations and why it matters

Human Resource Management Review

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-14

  Ridder, Hans Gerd ^a   Baluch, Alina McCandless ^a   Piening, Erk P ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

HR architectures; Nonprofit organizations; Performance; Strategic human resource management

Indexed keywords

EID: 83155180170     PISSN: 10534822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrmr.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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