Strategic human resource management within a resource-capability view of the firm
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This paper takes a critical look at the field of strategic human resource management and in particular the debate about the strategic value of the human resource. We identify the contribution as well as the problematic nature of the situational-contingency perspective. Drawing from the strategic management literature and the concept of resource heterogeneity, we then posit a resource-capability view of the firm and argue that the mutually reinforcing interaction between the stock of knowledge, skills and expertise (resources) and the organizational routines and human resource policies and practices (capabilities) generates human resource competencies whose strategic value is realizable to the extent that they are linked with core competencies which goes beyond existing trait, behavioral and systems approaches. Finally, we identify the circumstances surrounding the generation and distribution of rents arising from the utilization of human resource competencies by drawing from transaction cost theory and industrial relations. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Management Studies
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0022-2380
Year: 1996
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Towards a theory of organizational improvisation: looking beyond the jazz metaphor
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The article complements the jazz improvisation theory of organizational behavior with three alternative approaches: music therapy, Indian music and role theory. The addition of these models can improve understanding of the complexity involved in creating organizational improvisation theory.
Publication Name: Journal of Management Studies
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0022-2380
Year: 2003
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Organizational Task Environments: An Evaluation of Convergent and Discriminant Validity
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A multi-method, multi-trait matrix approach is used to evaluate the organizational task environment (OTE) construct for complexity, dynamism, and munificence. Findings show that OTE exhibits convergent but not discriminant validity. Implications are discussed.
Publication Name: Journal of Management Studies
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0022-2380
Year: 2004
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