Most discussions of knowledge, knowledge management and knowledge transfer, especially of HRM knowledge and its transfer, have failed to consider them in a cross-cultural context. After a discussion of this issue, the paper analyses the migration or transfer of what is often claimed to be best...

Systems thinking and organisation development (OD) are increasingly recognised as core foundations of contemporary HRD. However, most current thinking in OD is based on outdated, simplistic systems models incapable of dealing adequately with complexity, and so cannot as constituted contribute to...

This paper considers the nature of the dominant corporate paradigm, its change, failures or successes, and it's relationship with the homeostatic organization. There is a popular way of understanding the dynamics of organizational change and that is through the pre-configured sequence of stages...