Sustainability in human resource management practices used by small and medium-sized enterprises: a systematic review
Sustainability in human resource management practices used by small and medium-sized enterprises: a systematic review

Summary/Abstract: Purpose– I aimed to analyze and synthesize the literature on sustainable HRM and its sub-concepts, such asgreen HRM and socially responsible HRM, with the focus on research conducted in the Visegrad Group (V4)countries. I posed the following research questions: (1) What are the main characteristics of sustainable HRMresearch in the worldwide literature? (2) What are the main characteristics of research conducted in the V4countries? (3) Which future research directions are promising gaps to be filled by research conducted in V4countries?Design/methodology/approach– For the purpose of this study, I applied bibliometric analysis, scientificnetwork analysis and in-depth content analysis.Findings– The results of the analyses of articles indexed in the Scopus database revealed that there is agrowing trend in research on sustainable HRM. However, scarce research comes from the V4; scholars haveconducted such studies only in Slovakia and Poland. There are five thematic clusters in the main sample,though the concept of green HRM has been explored the most. Although the keyword network analysis showedthat the V4 articles focus mostly on sustainable HRM, the in-depth content analysis provided evidence that theV4 sample represented all concepts.Originality/value– This is the first study to analyze the achievements of scientists from the V4 in thisresearch field. It applies methodological rigor and a mixed-method approach. Moreover, it presents directions ofresearch that go beyond the recommendations presented in the analyzed articles.

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