The DOI matches its Crossref record; 23 of the 23 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Human capital theory: implications for human resource development
Abstract
This article reviews definitions of 'Human Capital Theory' by leading economists and HRD scholars. The origin of the term 'capital' is explained, and the link between Human Capital Theory and HRD is discussed. It is argued in the article that HRD scholars and practitioners should explore further the link between human capital, HRD and development at individual, organizational, community and international levels.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
On the mechanics of economic development
Lucas, R. E. (1988) · Journal of Monetary Economics · doi:10.1016/0304-3932(88)90168-7 · Cited by 24,085
Increasing returns and long-run growth
Romer, P. M. (1986) · Journal of Political Economy · doi:10.1086/261420 · Cited by 20,149
Endogenous Technological Change
Romer, P. (1989) · National Bureau of Economic Research · doi:10.3386/w3210 · Cited by 13,303
The role of human capital in economic development evidence from aggregate cross-country data
Benhabib, J., & Spiegel, M. M. (1994) · Journal of Monetary Economics · doi:10.1016/0304-3932(94)90047-7 · Cited by 3,813
Intellectual Capital: Realizing Your Company's True Value by Finding Its Hidden Brainpower
Edvinsson, L., & Malone, M. S. (1997) · Cited by 3,070
Why Doesn't Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries?
(2017) · Macat Library eBooks · doi:10.4324/9781912281152 · Cited by 2,531
Ury, C. M., & Cohn, E. (1980) · Southern Economic Journal · doi:10.2307/1057569 · Cited by 2,257
Human Capital, Fertility, and Economic Growth
Becker, G. S., Murphy, K. M., & Tamura, R. (1990) · Journal of Political Economy · doi:10.1086/261723 · Cited by 1,988
Nobel Lecture: The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior
Becker, G. S. (1993) · Journal of Political Economy · doi:10.1086/261880 · Cited by 1,609
Growth Based on Increasing Returns Due to Specialization
Romer, P. (2016) · American Economic Review · Cited by 1,434
Cited by
Workplace 'learning' and adult education: Messy objects, blurry maps and making difference
Fenwick, T. (2010) · European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults · doi:10.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela0006 · Cited by 52
Assessing and Developing Critical-thinking Skills in Higher Education
Van Damme, D., Zahner, D., Cortellini, O., Dawber, T., & Rotholz, K. (2023) · European Journal of Education · doi:10.1111/ejed.12563 · Cited by 32
Metadata
- Authors
- Nafukho, F. M., Hairston, N., & Brooks, K.
- Venue
- Human Resource Development International
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2004-12
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 545-551
- ISSN
- 1367-8868 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-8374
- OpenAlex
- W2158447922
- Cited by
- 470
- References
- 23
- FWCI
- 5.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Human capital theory: implications for human resource development. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1080/1367886042000299843
- The paper
- Nafukho, F. M., Hairston, N., & Brooks, K. (2004). Human capital theory: implications for human resource development. Human Resource Development International. https://doi.org/10.1080/1367886042000299843
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
