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This conceptual and exploratory study on Sustainable HRM has aimed at extending the emerging literature linking sustainability and HR issues and linking the discourses on Strategic HRM and sustainability to the organisational debate on paradox theory.

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    See also the replies to Ghoshal’s last article before his death (Ghoshal 2005) in the Special Issues of the Academy of Management Learning and Education Journal, 4(1): particularly Donaldson (2005), Gapper (2005), Hambrick (2005), Mintzberg (2005), and Pfeffer (2005b).

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    Chmielewiz (1979) emphasises the educational aspect of philosophies of science and comments sarcastically that philosophies of science theorists do not have to worry for not having enough enemies. But, as Starbuck’s (2004) career shows exemplarily, a researcher’s position in the philosophies of science can be subject to change over time depending on the individual experiences in different research environments.

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Ehnert, I. (2009). Discussion and Conclusions. In: Sustainable Human Resource Management. Contributions to Management Science. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2188-8_8

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