Success in human resource management (HRM) depends on the question of whether applied practices of HRM meet specific contingency factors and are appropriately configured. Using this argument, the present article examines HRM in professional service firms (PSFs) in pursuit of three objectives....

Anti-management paradigms in organization theory -- Structural contingency theory of organizational adaptation -- A critique of population-ecology theory -- A critique of institutional theory -- A critique of resource dependence theory -- A critique of organizational economics -- Towards a...