...Michael Clinton; David E. Guest Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the broad debate regarding universalistic and contingency perspectives of human resource management (HRM). Design/methodology/approach – Building on recent evidence of HRM differentiation within...

... of the industry ‐ take us to the year 2000 (Head office manager, Company C, aged 37, eight years’ service). © MCB UP Limited 1998 Differentiation Hierarchy Integration Corporate culture Retailing Recent theoretical contributions could be taken as an indication that the concept of culture...