Toward mature talent management: Beyond shareholder value

Human Resource Development Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 301-319

  Collings, David G ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Alignment; Human resource development; Human resource management; Human resources; Pluralist; Stakeholder value; Talent; Talent management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906830293     PISSN: 10448004     EISSN: 15321096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrdq.21198     Document Type: Article

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