Title: Dynamic capabilities: the strategy-HRM intersect?

Authors: Denise Ghanam, Philip Cox

Addresses: Odette School of Business, University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, N9B 3P4, Canada. ' University of West England, Bristol Business School, Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1QY, UK

Abstract: The Resource-Based View (RBV) of the firm provides interesting insight into strategic competencies such as managing human capital. In reflecting this, many organisations have adopted the term |strategic human resource management| to indicate both a new entity and a new role. This paper discusses that transformation as debated in recent literature and proposes the current viewpoint of dynamic capabilities for understanding the connection of strategy and human resources. It provides examples from a recent case study to demonstrate the implementation of this intersection. This framework then has implications for other key strategic decisions like outsourcing, developing technological innovations, or rightsizing.

Keywords: human resource management; strategic HRM; dynamic capabilities; intellectual capital; configurational strategy; Japan; Canada; automotive manufacturers; automobile industry; resource-based view; RBV; human capital; outsourcing; technological innovation; rightsizing; resource-based theory.

DOI: 10.1504/IJLIC.2007.013823

International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital, 2007 Vol.4 No.1/2, pp.57 - 74

Published online: 30 May 2007 *

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