Strategic human resource management (HRM) research has been dominated by a best-practice perspective that calls for seeing uniformity and stability in HRM practices across organizations. The dominance of the best practice perspective occurs despite the many theoretical arguments and typologies...

Purpose – This paper focuses on a unique historical case study of industry evolution in order to develop a road map where historical and strategic research could develop a common ground for trans-disciplinary inquiry. Design/methodology/approach – The industry I explore is the Universal...