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Knowledge as a mediator between HRM practices and innovative activity

✍ Scribed by Alvaro Lopez-Cabrales; Ana Pérez-Luño; Ramón Valle Cabrera

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Weight: 177 KB
Volume: 48
Category: Article
ISSN: 0090-4848
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.20295

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Abstract

The objective of this paper is to test how human resources management (HRM) practices and employees' knowledge influence the development of innovative capabilities and, by extension, a firm's performance. Results confirm that HRM practices are not directly associated with innovation unless they take into account employees' knowledge. Specifically, our analyses establish a mediating role for the uniqueness of knowledge between collaborative HRM practices and innovative activity, a positive influence of knowledge‐based HRM practices on valuable knowledge, and a positive contribution of innovations to the company's profit. We tested hypotheses in a sample of firms from the most innovative Spanish industries through structural equation modeling. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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