Beyond strategic human resource management: Is sustainable human resource management the next approach?

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1069-1089

  Kramar, Robin ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

approaches to HRM; links between sustainability and HRM; organisational performance; strategic human resource management; sustainable HRM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892539891     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2013.816863     Document Type: Article

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