Purpose – Urban green spaces are valuable to residents for a variety of reasons and some degree of management is needed to ensure at least their preservation, if not enhancement, in a rapidly urbanising society. Intensification of the urban environment brings pressure upon the undeveloped...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the field of human resource management (HRM) in China, with insights drawn from recent times to several millennia earlier, with a view to informing the further work that needs to be done to better understand managing people in...

The Dutch Ministry of VROM (Housing, Physical planning and Environment) employs more than 4,000. Discusses its progressive track record over recent years on organization and personnel management. Shows how the Ministry, by a process of “learning by doing”, is adopting and adapting new ways...

Purpose – This paper examines the challenges facing multinational enterprises (MNEs) in finding competent managers to staff operations and subsidiaries in emerging market economies (EMEs). Design/methodology/approach – The key question examined is – who is going to manage the business...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to introduce the special issue on “Human resource management and corporate entrepreneurship”. Design/methodology/approach – The paper discuses the articles in the special issue, which investigate the relationships between human resource management and...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide a brief overview of the global financial crisis (GFC), highlighting its most frightening dimensions, the policy responses and issues around the management of labour during and post‐GFC. Further, this paper introduces the five research papers that...

Considers the use of a corporate university, driven by the human resources department and adopted by operations. Uses action learning principles to achieve corporate goals. Puts forward the view that companies that utilize action learning principles will be market leaders in the future. Contends...

Purpose – To provide experience‐based reflections on building, sustaining and leading a successful international travel business. Design/methodology/approach – The approach of the paper is based on an interview with the co‐founder and executive chairman of Flight Centre Limited. Findings...