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Editorial: Human Resource Management and Economic Success
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Management Revue
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April 1, 2005
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Copyright informationCopyright Rainer Hampp Verlag 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Human resource management has long been perceived as an "ugly duckling" within the wider field of business administration. The perception's roots are manifold. A critical issue, however, has always been that the utility of human resource management to a company's business success has been insufficiently demonstrated. In contrast to other business sub disciplines with deeper roots in classical micro-economic theories of the organization, human resource management could not acquire legitimacy through connectivity to production or sales functions. Although human resource management's practical utility has long been assumed, it requires empirical demonstration.
Empirical evidence of an ...