7Talent management and the future of work
Introduction
Talent management has become firmly enshrined as one of the most important and debated ideas within management practice over the past 20 years. The literature and community of scholars undertaking research in this domain have grown exponentially during this period. The preceding chapters have seen us discuss some of the most significant areas of published research on talent management, and in so doing we provided an overarching view on how far this field has travelled in a couple of decades. We suggest that, just like any relatively new and burgeoning research field, there remain limitations and gaps across many domains. For example, advances are still needed in the ...
