) measurement: (1) Do HR practices impact business results? (2) How can HR practices add value to business performance? (3) What HR … measures can drive business performance? Using Eastman Kodak as a case study, this article identifies three paths through which … HR practices contribute to business performance: (1) by building organizational capabilities; (2) by improving employee …

Like any value-creating staff function, HR departments should operate as a business within a business. Others have … organization structure of the business and (2) because diversified/allied business models prevail, it is important to lay out the …

most relevance here, human resource management. While many would agree that the radical innovation described in Moneyball … represents a “new vision of management” in baseball, this article describes how Moneyball lessons might contribute to a “new …

practices on talent management in China and elsewhere. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. …

knowledge about the fundamental driving forces of business. Business leaders and employees increasingly assume that HR … professionals must be fully versant about external business realities that directly or indirectly influence how to apply that … knowledge. We examine four of the most central categories of external business knowledge: advancements in technology, the causes …

&D. Our theory draws on perspectives that emphasize the need to develop new competencies within a business organization and to …

This paper studies how firms use acquisitions to achieve long-term business reconfiguration. We base the study in a … routine-based perspective on business dynamics. We develop and test hypotheses concerning the relative extent of change by … between 1978 and 1995. We find that acquisitions play a major role in business reconfiguration, offering opportunities for …