7 A stock-take and promising avenues for future research
The previous six chapters have tracked research in the field of Strategic Human Resource Management over a period of half a century. As a result, two main questions arise: first, what overall conclusions can be drawn from this body of research, and second, what are the emergent issues meriting future research?
One of the notable developments has been the unravelling, in many corporations, but not all, of the sophisticated packages of SHRM which had been celebrated and portrayed in the 1980s. In the face of more severe global competition and the squeeze on costs, some firms, including such notable and celebrated cases as Hewlett Packard, proceeded to erode ...
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