Searching for Competitive Advantage in the HRM-Firm Performance Relationship

Although the strategic human resource management (SHRM) stream of research has made impressive progress in recent years, the majority of it has become centered on the “universalistic” relationship of a particular kind of human resource system, most commonly labeled as a “high-performance work system,” with firm-level dependent variables. We argue that a broader perspective on strategy applied to human resource management (HRM) leverages...