Research in strategy has identified and tried to explain four types of rents: monopolistic rents, efficiency rents, quasi-rents, and Schumpeterian rents. Building on previous work on political and institutional strategies, we add a fifth type of rent, influence rents. Influence rents are the...

High performance work systems (HPWS) and their effect on firm performance is examined using a single holistic case study design in which the Total Strategic Resource Approach (TSRA) is used to measure the extent of HPWS implementation in a private Pakistani hospital. Using a mixed methodology...