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Sun, Judy; Wang, Greg G. – European Journal of Training and Development, 2013
Purpose: This study aims to examine human resource development (HRD) research as represented by the citations to the publications in the four journals sponsored by the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) from 2005 to 2011. Design/methodology/approach: The authors collected citation data from Google Scholar (GS) using Publish or Perish 3…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Research, Publications, Periodicals
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Wang, Greg G.; Sun, Judy Y. – European Journal of Training and Development, 2012
Purpose: This paper seeks to address the recent challenges in the international human resource development (HRD) research and the related methodological strategy. Design/methodology/approach: This inquiry is based on a survey of literatures and integrates various comparative research strategies adopted in other major social science disciplines.…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Research Methodology, Labor Force Development, Human Resources
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Wang, Greg G. – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2010
Purpose: This study sets out to investigate the e-learning participation and completion phenomenon in the US corporate HRD online communities and to explore determinants of e-learning completion. Design/methodology/approach: Based on the HRD Learning Participation Theory (LPT), this study takes a two-stage approach. Stage one adopts an interview…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Participation, Corporate Education, Labor Force Development
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Wang, Greg G.; Swanson, Richard A. – Human Resource Development Review, 2008
Recent human resource development (HRD) literature focuses attention on national HRD (NHRD) research and represents problems in both HRD identity and research methodology. Based on a review of development economics and international development literature, this study analyzes the existing NHRD literature with respect to the theory development…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Labor Force Development, Human Resources, Research Problems
Wang, Greg G.; Foucar-Szocki, Diane; Griffin, Oris – Online Submission, 2006
This study offers empirical evidence in HRD e-learning completion. Based on the Learning Participation Theory (LPT) (Wang & Wang, 2004), a study was conducted with U.S. corporate e-learners to explore the determinants of e-learning completion. The results generally confirmed the hypothesis by the LPT that individual, learning process, and…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Human Resources, Labor Force Development, Computer Uses in Education
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Wang, Greg G.; Wang, Jia – Human Resource Development Review, 2004
This article fills a theoretical gap by identifying an understudied subject area for human resource development (HRD) theory building, learning participation of HRD interventions in organizations. The topic has critical significance in current HRD practices, such as concerns on e-learning dropout rates and HRD measurement and evaluation. First, a…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Dropout Rate, Labor Force Development, Human Resources