 Is the resource-based ''view'' a useful perspective for SHRM research?Fabienne Autier and
Thierry Picq ()
Post-Print from HAL Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present the results of an exploratory empirical research carried out in 2001–2002, amongst 20 firms in the French video game industry. The objective of this research was to analyse the SHRM of these companies and to test the relevance of the Resource Based View of the firm, which states that Human Resources are all the more crucial for a given firm as they are specific, non imitable and socially complex (Coff, R. (1997) Academy of Management Review, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp.374–402). On the basis of semi-directive interviews of HR operators, the stake was to characterise the HR practices of each company in connection with its strategy and development stage. We thus obtained a snapshot of SHRM's various profiles existing in this sector. We further analyse the possible rationales to explain a paradoxical finding: video games companies, as they grow, tend to get rid of their specific, socially complex and causally ambiguous assets (namely the creative skills) in favour of more generic set of skills (namely, the management skills). Keywords: human capital; strategic HRM; human resources management; SHRM; resource based view; video games; France (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in International Journal of Technology Management, 2005, 31 (3-4), 204-221 p. ⟨10.1504/IJTM.2005.006631⟩ There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02311819 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Post-Print from HAL |
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