Developing people for business success: capability-driven HRD in practice

Management Decision

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 145-153

  Luoma, Mikko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VAASA   (Finland)

Author keywords

Competitiveness; Human resource development; Strategic management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986144775     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000005342     Document Type: Article

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