Murillo-Ramos, LydiaHuertas-Valdivia, IreneGarcía-Muiña, Fernando E.2024-02-132024-02-132022-10-05Murillo-Ramos, L., Huertas-Valdivia, I. and García-Muiña, F.E. (2023), "Exploring the cornerstones of green, sustainable and socially responsible human resource management", International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 44 No. 3, pp. 524-542. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-12-2021-0696https://hdl.handle.net/10115/30426Depositada versión postprint aceptada del artículo•Purpose: To delineate the fast-growing path of HRM research with a sustainable orientation and resolve confusion over the differences and interdependences of the various approaches that have emerged: green human resource management (GHRM), sustainable human resource management (Sustainable HRM), and socially responsible human resource management (SR-HRM). •Design/methodology/approach: Bibliometrics and science mapping were used to analyze the field’s conceptual structure based on 587 related documents extracted from the ISI Web of Science database. Co-word analysis with SciMAT software enabled us to map the main themes studied and identify their evolution, importance, and relevance. •Findings: SR-HRM is the least-developed of the three approaches analyzed and has been overlooked by the journals that publish the most work in the field of HR. We identify a lack of sustainability-related HRM studies on higher education and an ongoing need both to explore the role of culture in GHRM implementation and to explain further the potential non-green behavioral outcomes that can result from its use. •Originality: Explores in detail the interrelations among various emerging sustainable human resource approaches and subtopics derived from them to reveal hotspots, dilemmas, paradoxes, and research gaps. •Practical implications: Demonstrates how human resource factors are key to managing challenges such as aging workforce, unstable employment relationships, implementation of green supply chain management, and Industry 4.0.engAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Science mapping; CSR-HRM; GHRM; Sustainable HRM and SR-HRMinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article10.1108/IJM-12-2021-0696info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess