Forwarded on behalf of Patrick Wright and the Launch Committee for the Strategic Management Society's Strategic Human Capital Interest Group.
SMS Approves Strategic Human Capital Interest Group
We are happy to announce that the Strategic Management Society (SMS) recently approved the provisional creation of the Strategic Human Capital (SHC) Interest Group. This group will promote research addressing the role of human capital in firm performance. Scholarship that is interdisciplinary and/or considers human capital at multiple levels of analysis is especially welcomed. Examples of the types of questions included in this conceptual space are the following:
· What are the mechanisms that link human capital to firm-level outcomes?
· To what extent can firms gain competitive advantage through "people?"
· What are the drivers of value appropriation by Strategic Human Capital?
· How do firms best manage the value appropriation challenges presented by "star" employees?
· How can firms purposefully create valuable firm-level human capital heterogeneity?
· Why and how do competitive interactions within labor markets (e.g., talent poaching) differ from competitive interactions in other strategic factor markets?
· How do management practices that enhance the strategic value of human capital diffuse?
· What factors explain differences in value creation by human capital at the firm or industry level?
· How does human capital emerge and interact with other forms of intellectual capital (e.g., social capital, organizational capital) to influence firm-level outcomes?
You can get involved in three ways:
- If you are not currently a member, you can join SMS. The annual membership fee is US$215. You can get information on membership at: http://strategicmanagement.net/members/index.php
- Submit proposals to the upcoming annual conference in Rome, Italy, September 12-15, 2010. The deadline for submission is Feb. 25, 2010. While we are waiting for this new interest group to be integrated into the SMS web infrastructure, you can contact the 2010 Program Chair, Dave Lepak at lepak@smlr.rutgers.edu.
- If you are interested in becoming part of this interest group, please send an e-mail message with "Join me" in the Subject line to: strategichumancapital@gmail.com.
Patrick Wright
Chair, Launch Committee for Strategic Human Capital IG