An ascendant view of human resource management as a critical content dimension in new venture strategy
Entrepreneurial Strategic Content
ISBN: 978-1-84855-422-1, eISBN: 978-1-84855-423-8
Publication date: 21 May 2009
Abstract
Research on strategy in new ventures has increasingly drawn upon resource-based theory, and thus has emphasized intangible factors that confer sustainable competitive advantage. These include dynamic and combinative capabilities, networks, routines, and knowledge as resources of new ventures. Yet antecedent to every one of these intangible resources is the management of the venture. But research has seldom considered management and the human resources of new ventures as a critical dimension of strategy content. This paper develops such an argument, and explores the performance contribution of human resources as strategy content in a longitudinal study of technology new ventures.
Citation
Page West, G. and Bernhardt, J.N. (2009), "An ascendant view of human resource management as a critical content dimension in new venture strategy", Lumpkin, G.T. and Katz, J.A. (Ed.) Entrepreneurial Strategic Content (Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth, Vol. 11), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 103-135. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1074-7540(2009)0000011006
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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