Does HRM Matter for KM? Preliminary Insights From a Systematic Literature Review

The paper aims to present preliminary data from a systematic literature review. With this paper/communication we intend to explore a way to identify and evidence the main scientific papers, around the Knowledge management's (KM) (in)dependence on Human resource management (HRM), published during the last decade - 2009-2019, and deepen the conceptual and theoretical foundations of this inter-relation. Following the guidelines for systematic literature review, for management and social sciences, the authors searched, selected and analysed top cited scientific papers, published in peerreviewed journals, indexed in the SCOPUSTM database. A comparison between the publication characteristics and tendencies through a bibliometrics analysis will be presented. A chronological pattern of the most significant studies around these topics and a deep analysis of the potential change/evolution at this scientific domain, namely, at the methodological research perspectives will be synthetical presented and discussed, aiming to consolidate the past, trying to better understand the present and to prospect the HR and knowledge management confluent future.