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Strategic human resource management, human capital and competitive advantage: is the field going in circles?
John E. Delery,Dorothea Roumpi +1 more
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In this paper, the authors argue that HRM practices can contribute to a firm's sustainable competitive advantage not only by enhancing employees' ability, and offering motivation and opportunities, but also by shaping supply-side and demand-side mobility constraints.Abstract:
The resource-based view (RBV) of the firm has been consistently used as a backdrop in strategic human resource management (SHRM) research and has the potential to bridge the ‘micro–macro’ divide. The tension between the SHRM and the strategic human capital literature, however, signifies that RBV has not reached its potential. In this paper, we begin with a brief review of the conceptual logic linking human resource management (HRM) practices and firm outcomes that aim at highlighting the different treatment of RBV in the SHRM and strategic human capital literatures. We then propose a conceptual model that suggests that HRM practices are not simple levers that enable firms to create sustainable competitive advantage, as most of the strategic human capital research postulates. On the contrary, we argue that HRM practices can contribute to a firm's sustainable competitive advantage not only by enhancing employees' ability, and offering motivation and opportunities, but also by shaping supply-side and demand-side mobility constraints.read more
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Integrating strategic human capital and strategic human resource management
Abstract: Human capital is an important construct in a variety of fields spanning from micro scholarship in psychology to macro scholarship in economics. Within the various disciplinary perspectives, research focuses on slightly different aspects and levels of human capital within organizations, which may give opportunities for integration. The current paper aims to increase knowledge about human capital within organizations by integrating two streams of research which focus directly on human capital, but have approached human capital in different ways: strategic human capital (SHC), and strategic HRM. We describe both SHC and strategic HRM research streams and propose areas of integration, and directions for future research on human capital in organizations.
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Global Talent Management and Performance in Multinational Enterprises: A Multilevel Perspective:
TL;DR: In this paper, the link between global talent management and multinational enterprises' (MNEs) performance has not been theorized or empirically tested and a theoretical framework for how GTM links with MNE performance has been developed.
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Sustainable HRM strategies and employment relationships as drivers of the triple bottom line
TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual framework capable of analysing the contributions made by strategic human resources management (SHRM) to firm sustainability and competitiveness is developed, in order to identify different sustainable corporate strategies and the way in which they are supported by coherent sustainable HRM strategies.
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A quarter-century review of HRM in small and medium-sized enterprises: Capturing what we know, exploring where we need to go
Brian Harney,Hadeel Alkhalaf +1 more
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Still in search of strategic human resource management? A review and suggestions for future research with China as an example
TL;DR: This article reviewed SHRM research published in two leading HRM journals (Human Resource Management and Human Resource Management Journal) and found that the trend of psychologization is gathering pace, the range of theoretical perspectives mobilized to inform the studies is actually expanding.
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