Organizational hiring patterns, interfirm network ties, and interorganizational imitation

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Williamson, IO; Cable, DM
• 署名单位: University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/30040628
• 发表日期: 2003
• 页码: 349-358
• 关键词: human-resource management; performance; modes

摘要

This study introduces the principles of social contagion and institutional theory to human resource management by examining the top management team (TMT) hiring patterns of Fortune 500 firms. Results provide some initial but promising evidence that social environmental factors should be incorporated into human resource management theory. Specifically, results indicate that firms hired TMT members from sources with which they shared interfirm network ties and that TMT hiring patterns were shaped by mimetic isomorphism.