2‘Talent management’ definitions, conceptualisations and frameworks
Introduction
Research within Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) and talent management is undoubtedly subject to contested terrain as various texts, especially earlier publications, focused on establishing (arbitrary) boundaries between the two (Iles, Chuai & Preece, 2010; Lewis & Heckman, 2006). While we concede that there is a need within academia to distinguish between different research domains, we do not seek to reconcile these approaches here in this book. We require a more informed understanding of talent and the talent management phenomena as the two terms are omnipresent in the corporate lexicon. There is a danger of researchers getting too enshrined in debates ...
