Human Resources, Human Resource Management, and the Competitive Advantage of Firms: Toward a More Comprehensive Model of Causal Linkages

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Chadwick, Clint; Dabu, Adina
• 署名单位: University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Huntsville; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1080.0375
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 253-272
• 关键词: strategic HRM; rent theories; resource-based view; entrepreneurship; DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES

摘要

We maintain that human resources are strategically significant in at least three cases, when these resources ( 1) help create traditional Ricardian rents; ( 2) function as components of organizational capabilities that generate nontraditional Ricardian rents; and ( 3) are the source of technological and managerial innovations that produce entrepreneurial rents. Human resource management ( HRM) activities, on the other hand, assume strategic significance by supporting the three cases above through a process that we call managerial entrepreneurship. Furthermore, HRM takes on different forms when supporting each of these types of rents. Hence, this rent-based view has greater potential to help explain the contribution of human resources to firms' competitive advantages than approaches that are grounded in the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm, which primarily reeffects the Ricardian view of rents. Moreover, a rent-based approach suggests fruitful new ways to address many of the theoretic challenges confronting the strategic human resource management (SHRM) literature.