It has become generally accepted that “people and not capital add the competitive edge” ( The Sunday Times , 17 November 1996). This belief is often put into practice through the use of frameworks of organisational learning and the concept of the learning organisation. These are invariably...

Questions whether human resources are being viewed in Slovakia in a manner which transcends profit maximisation. Compares three cases of corporate HR action in post‐communism: two take place within multinationals which have set up shop in the former Czechoslovakia and one is a domestic success...