Purpose – This paper aims to offer a critique, from a career studies perspective, of the common term “human resource management.” Design/methodology/approach – Provides a literature review and critique. Findings – The term “human resource management” is a metaphor that presents...

For many individuals, their relationship with their employing organization is not a small or momentary thing - it is a critical element in their lives. If an individual's career is a journey - as it is most frequently conceptualized in metaphorical terms (Inkson, 2004, 2007) - then organizations...

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) project in Australia provided both data and theoretical framework for this investigation of regional differences in entrepreneurial activity within Australia and the factors that might underlie such differences. This study found that entrepreneurial...