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- Inter-Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage
- Resource-oriented perspectives of strategic management are on the way to discovering a topic to which little attention has been paid so far within their own ranks: inter-firm networks. This article argues that the resource- and competence-based view - despite its new facet of analysis - falls back on a traditional...
- White papers 2004-04-11
- Between Employment Relationships and Market Relationships: Dilemmas for HR Management
- In the classic company the model of wage labor under a standard labor contract still dominates, while in the modern network/virtual company contracts for services is becoming a dominant way of utilization of labor. Between these two models many hybrid employment relations are developing, combining elements of both. The hybridization...
- White papers 2004-08-05
- E-HRM: Innovation or Irritation: An Explorative Empirical Study in Five Large Companies on Web-based HRM
- Technological optimistic voices assume that, from a technical perspective, the IT possibilities for HRM are endless: in principal all HR processes can be supported by IT. E-HRM is the relatively new term for this IT supported HRM, especially through the use of web technology. This paper aims at demystifying e-HRM...
- White papers 2004-05-28
- Innovating the HR Function in a Commercializing British Public Sector Organization: Towards a More Strategic Role for HR?
- Although the body of research and practice on HR management in private sector organizations has grown at an astonishing pace in recent years, much less is known about the nature, role and meaning of a strategic HR department within public sector organizations undergoing commercialization. This article addresses this gap by...
- White papers 2004-05-10
- A Typical Employment Relationships and Commitment: Wishful Thinking or HR Challenge?
- Nowadays, simultaneously maintaining flexible working practices and commitment is an important topic for HR managers since they both can contribute to organizational success. However, many HRM researchers and practitioners are unsure whether these can go together as job security is often seen as a necessary condition for commitment. Since relatively...
- White papers 2004-04-30
- Diffusion of HRM to Europe and the Role of US MNCs: Introduction to the Special Issue
- This paper reviews of the development of HRM in the USA and in Germany and evidence on convergence of HRM practices in Europe help us consider both what may be being transmitted from the USA and the evidence for its transmission. It provides different kinds of evidence on the convergence...
- White papers 2005-02-12
- Human Resource Management and Economic Success
- Empirical evidence of an association between human resource management and company economic success has proved difficult. As long as human resource management has not been seen as a coherent pattern or system - in contrast to individual HR practices or loosely tied bundles of instruments - performance may only be...
- White papers 2005-04-25
- Human Resources and Business Performance: Findings, Unanswered Questions, and an Alternative Approach
- In 1996, Becker and Gerhart noted that much of the work on human resources HR and performance had traditionally been conducted at the individual level of analysis. However, in the 1990s, empirical research on HR and performance increasingly moved to the plant/unit and firm level of analysis with a new...
- White papers 2005-02-22
- Missing Variables in Theories of Strategic Human Resource Management: Time, Cause, and Individuals
- Much progress has been made with regard to theory building and application in the field of Strategic Human Resource Management HRM since Wright and McMahan's (1992) critical review. While researchers have increasingly investigated the impact of HR on economic success within the Resource Based view of the firm, and have...
- White papers 2005-02-07
- The Configurational Approach to Linking Strategic Human Resource Management Bundles With Business Performance: Myth or Reality?
- Strategic human resource management has been linked to competitive advantage and in turn to organizational performance. This linkage has been viewed from a universal, a contextual or a configurational perspective. Adopting the latter perspective, this study investigates the possible Strategic HRM Bundles of competitive advantage within the EU and the...
- White papers 2005-02-16
- Human Resource Management and Economic Success: An Australian Perspective
- This paper examines the case for a link at the national and firm level between human resource management HRM and economic success in Australia. A brief history of the industrial development of Australia and New Zealand is presented and some differentiating factors noted. A key factor with regard to Australia...
- White papers 2005-02-27
- Human Resource Management and Performance: A Comparative Study of Ireland and the Netherlands
- This article compares the effects of 'high performance human resource management' HPHR on employee and company performance between Ireland and the Netherlands. Key hypotheses are, first, that companies using the HPHR system exhibit higher levels of employee and company performance than companies that do not. Second, it expects that these...
- White papers 2005-04-11
- Researching on SHRM: An Analysis of the Debate Over the Role Played by Human Resources in Firm Success
- Many different models have been recently proposed to explain the contribution of human resource management to organizational performance, drawing on diverse theoretical frameworks and using many different methodologies. Trying to shed light on the complex state of the art in this field of research, this paper proposes an analysis of...
- White papers 2005-04-08
- HR Contribution to a Firm's Success Examined From a Configurational Perspective: An Exploratory Study Based on the Spanish CRANET Data
- The objective in this study is to examine whether a firm's economic/financial success can be associated with the application of certain HRM policies, practices and strategies. In this empirical study, an extended rationale borrowed from a configurational conceptual model is used in order to examine the multiple linkages and architecture...
- White papers 2005-04-19
- Innovating Organizations and HRM: A Conceptual Framework
- The articles in this special issue are related to two of the tracks, labeled "Organizational innovation and HRM" and "Innovating the HR Function". This first article should be read as an introduction to the five articles from the congress that follow, to position them in the field and to show...
- White papers 2004-08-05
- Human Resource Advantage in the Networked Organization
- It is often assumed that firms have freedom of choice over their HR policies and practices; however, the networks within which they operate suggest that the HR practices themselves may be influenced by clients, suppliers, partners and other collaborators. This paper aims to examine the development of HR policies and...
- White papers 2004-02-20
- Managing Asymmetric Resource Dependence and Environmental Risk in Relationships by Real Options
- Asymmetric dependence in buyer-seller relationship is probably among the most widely studied phenomena in relationship research. However, the focus on asymmetric resource dependence has mainly addressed risks within the buyer-seller dyad and has largely disregarded external types of risk affecting relationships. This paper examines how to balance resources in relationships...
- White papers 2004-04-21
- The Next Step in the Evolution of the RBV: Integration With Transaction Cost Economics
- This paper addresses the role of transaction cost economics TCE in advancing the resource-based view. In particular, it is argued that TCE has the potential to remedy a number of weak spots in the RBV, such as the absence of attention in the RBV to the interaction between value creation...
- White papers 2004-04-15
- Pourquoi pas? Rational Choice as a Basic Theory of HRM
- A broad spectrum of theories from different disciplines is portrayed in contemporary A broad spectrum of theories from different disciplines is portrayed in contemporary HRM as a discipline of business administration. Theories from psychology, sociology and economics correspond to the variety of problems addressed in HRM which are again situated...
- White papers 2004-04-18
- Political [Personnel] Economy- A Political Economy Perspective to Explain Different Forms of Human Resource Management Strategies
- A political economy approach to explaining the existence of different human resource strategies is developed in this article - in short: a political personnel economy. The starting point is a critical analysis of the abstinence of politics and power and the resulting explanation deficiencies of traditional microeconomic approaches and of...
- White papers 2004-05-13
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