Human resources management processes: A value-creating source of competitive advantage

European Management Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 174-181

  Amit, Raphael ^a   Belcourt, Monica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033114548     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0263-2373(98)00076-0     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Amit R., Schoemaker P. Strategic assets and organizational rent. Strategic Management Journal. 14:1993;33-46.
2. Barney J.B. Strategic factor markets: expectations, luck and business strategy. Management Science. 32:1986;1231-1241.
3. Barney J.B. Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage. Journal of Management. 17:1991;99-120.
4. Becker B., Gerhart B. The impact of human resources management on organizational performance: progress and prospects. Academy of Management Journal. 39:1996;779-801.
5. Becker B.E., Huselid M., Pickus P.S., Spratt M.F. HR as a source of shareholder value: research and recommendations. Human Resource Management. 36:1997;39-47.
6. Belcourt, M. and Wright, P. (1995) Performance Improvement through Training and Development, ed. M. Belcourt. Nelson Canada Series in HRM. ITP Nelson, Toronto.
7. Burns, T. and Stalker, G.M. (1961) The Management of Innovation. Tavistock, London.
8. Capelli P., Crocker-Hefter A. Distinctive human resources are firm's core competence. Organizational Dynamics. 24:1996;7-22.
9. Coff R.W. Human assets and management dilemmas: coping with hazards on the road to resource-based theory. Academy of Management Review. 22:1997;374-402.
10. Cohen M.D., Bacdayan P. Organizational routines are stored as procedural memory: evidence from a laboratory study. Organizational Science. 5:1994;278-291.
11. Dierickx I., Cool K. Asset stock accumulation and sustainability of competitive advantage. Management Science. 35:1989;1504-1511.
12. Huselid M.A. The impact of human resource management practices on turnover, productivity, and corporate financial performance. Academy of Management Journal. 38:1995;635-672.
13. Jackson R., Schuler R.S. Understanding human resource management in the context of organizations and their environments. Annual Review of Psychology. 46:1995;237-264.
14. Koch, Gunter-McGrath R. Improving labour productivity: HR policies do matter. Strategic Management Journal. 17:1996;335-354.
15. Lado A.A., Wilson M.C. Human resource systems and sustained competitive advantage. Academy of Management Review. 19:1994;699-727.
16. Oliver C. Strategic responses to institutional processes. Academy of Management Journal. 16:1991;145-179.
17. Oliver C. The antecedents of deinstitutionalization. Organizational Studies. 13:1992;563-588.
18. Oliver C. The institutional embeddedness of economic activity. Advances in Strategic Management. 13:1996;163-186.
19. Oliver C. Sustainable competitive advantage: combining institutional and resource-based views. Strategic Management Journal. 18:1997;697-713.
20. Pentland B.T., Reuter H.H. Organizational routines as grammars of action. Administrative Science Quarterly. 39:1994;484-510.
21. Perrow, C. (1986) Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay, 3rd edn. Scott Foresman, Glenview, IL.
22. Peteraf M.A. The cornerstones of competitive advantage: a resource-based view. Strategic Management Journal. 14:1993;179-191.
23. Quinn, J.B., Anderson, P. and Finklestein, S. (1996) Levering intellect. Academy of Management Executive 10.
24. Reed R., De Fillipi R.J. Causal ambiguity, barriers to imitation, and sustainable competitive advantage. Academy of Management Review. 15:1990;88-102.
25. Rowe W.G., Wright P.M. Related and unrelated diversification and their effect on human resource management controls. Strategic Management Journal. 18:1997;329-338.
26. Rumelt, R.P. (1984) Towards a strategic theory of the firm. In Competitive Strategic Management, ed. R.B. Lamb, pp. 556-570. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
27. Saks, A.M. and Belcourt, M. (1997) Training activities and the transfer of training. Working paper, York University.
28. Snell S.A., Youndt M.A., Wright M.W. Establishing a framework for research in strategic human resource management. Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management. 14:1996;61-90.
29. Stewart, T.A. (1997) Intellectual Capital. DoubleDay/Currency, New York.
30. Teece D.J., Pisano G., Shuen A. Dynamic capabilities and strategic management. Strategic Management Journal. 18:1997;509-533.
31. Woodward, J. (1965) Industrial Organizations: Theory and Practice. Oxford University Press, London.
32. Zukin, S. and DiMaggio, P.J. (eds) (1990) Introduction. Structures of Capital: The Social Organization of the Economy, pp. 1-56. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.