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This article asserts the importance of clearly specifying the underlying theory of HRD, and challenges those who do not see this as essential to the profession. The central argument is that HRD must continue to mature as a discipline and that the integration of selected psychological, economic and systems theories serve as the unique theoretical foundation of HRD.
Richard A. Swanson (Sat,) studied this question.