We examine how firms adapt their organization when they go public. To conform with the requirements of public capital markets, we expect IPO firms to become more organized, making the firm more accountable and its human capital more easily replaceable. We find that IPO firms transform into a...

This paper examines the relationship between organization contextual variables and humanresource management (HRM) practices in small firms. The proposed model is based on anintegration of theoretical perspectives, including the resource-based approach, institutionaltheory, transaction cost...

The objective in this study was to examine whether a firm’s economic/financial success can be associated with the application of certain HRM policies, practices and strategies. In this empirical study, an extended rationale borrowed from a configurational conceptual model was used in order to...

In der gegenwärtigen Modernisierungsdebatte des öffentlichen Sektors spielt die Verselbständigung von Verwaltungseinheiten eine zentrale Rolle. Die Reduzierung des Staates auf seine Kernaufgaben durch Enthierarchisierung und Dezentralisierung von Kosten- und Leistungsverantwortung sowie die...

In the human resource-based view of an organisation, resource heterogeneity of the firm provides sustainable competitive advantage. The two core variables that define the resource heterogeneity are the content capital (human capital) and the contextual capital (organisational and managerial...