Strategic human resource planning

Human resources

Epistemology

Empirical research

Perspective (graphical)

Philosophy

Business

Artificial intelligence

Economics

Marketing

Strategic fit

Extant taxon

Resource Acquisition Is Initialization

Management

Human resource management

Resource (disambiguation)

Human capital

Resource-based view

Dynamic capabilities

Resource allocation

Computer network

Industrial organization

Computer science

Strategic planning

Economic growth

Knowledge management

Competitive advantage

Evolutionary biology

Strategic management

Biology

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

Strategic human resource management scholars have drawn on the resource-based view of the firm to argue that a high commitment human resource (HCHR) strategy leads to firm competitive advantage by creating greater firm-level employee-based resources that are rare and valuable. While there is early empirical support for this mediated model, prior studies have largely ignored two key aspects of the RBV perspective. First, extant research has not effectively explained why differences in employee-based resources persist across firms that have adopted the same firm-level HR strategy. Second, this body of research has largely ignored contemporary thinking on the RBV which suggests that employee-based resources only lead to competitive advantage when they are a fit to other organization capabilities that enable the firm to effectively orchestrate them for productive use. I draw on the literature on dynamic managerial capabilities to argue that CEO managerial cognition, social capital, and human capital help to explain when pursuing an HCHR strategy potentially leads to greater firm-level employee-based resources and when firms are able to effectively manage and deploy these employee-based resources for competitive advantage.

Expanding the resource based view model of strategic human resource management