Specific Human Capital as a Source of Superior Team Performance

Egon Franck, Stephan Nüesch and Jan Pieper
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Stephan Nuesch

Schmalenbach Business Review (sbr), 2011, vol. 63, issue 4, 376-392

Abstract: We empirically investigate the performance effect of team-specific human capital in highly interactive teams. Based on the tenets of the resource-based view of the firm and on the ideas of typical learning functions, we hypothesize that team members’ shared experience in working together have a positive effect on team performance, but at diminishing rates. When we hold constant a team’s stock of general human capital and other potential drivers, we find support for this prediction. We also discuss the implications concerning investment decisions into human capital as well as the transferability of our findings to other contexts.

Keywords: Human Capital; Learning; Rexource-Based View of the Firm; Team Performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 C23 M54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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