Talent management decision making

Management Decision

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 925-941

  Vaiman, Vlad ^a   Scullion, Hugh ^b   Collings, David ^c  

^a REYKJAVIK UNIVERSITY   (Iceland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Decision making; Employees; Global talent; Human resource management; Talent management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861424992     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741211227663     Document Type: Article

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