Territorial-Human Resources Management (T-HRM): From History to Emergence

Abstract

The paper aims to highlight a relatively new phenomenon in management sciences:Territorial-Human Resources Management (T-HRM). Since its inception in the Francophone literature more than fifteen years, this topic has been subjected to a growing body of research, including both em-pirical and theoretical developments. The paper relies on a theoretical approach that stands from recalling T-HRM historical perspective to shedding the light on the following questions : how does T-HRM emerge ? How it is defined and what are the main practices ? On the basis of what line ofresearch it may be associated ? Limitations derived from the French model of T-HRM allowproviding a new and extended definition quite useful for future research that merely will be basedon the Western perspective of T-HRM that we lay the foundation for. In contrast to previous stud-ies that still confine T-HRM in the Francophone literature, our study goes beyond these precursorworks and provides new insights for worldwide scholars with a new and extended definition of T-HRM. This may be the first study conducted in English about the topic and the paper may be help-ful for those new in this field.