Haozhe Chen Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management, East Carolina University, USA [email protected] Although the concept of supply chain management (SCM) has been widely accepted among academics and practitioners, the influence of human performance on the supply chain has gained little research attention. Without satisfactory performance of qualified and capable employees dedicated to ...

Human factors are increasingly recognized as real culprits of failures in Information Security Management (ISM). Thus, the roles of Human Resource Management (HRM) become more salient with ISM. Unlike practitioners, researchers appear reluctant to acknowledge such emergence. Prior literature has not attempted to link ISM with HRM theoretically. ISM literature suggests that both technical and no...

Sustainable Human Resource Management (HRM), has the potential to facilitate organisations development of principles, policies and practices for challenges 21st century. However, do this we argue a fundamental element in process yet be fully addressed incorporated into theory practice sustainable HRM; is employee voice. Additionally, actual role trade unions facilitating voice conceptualised wi...

Performing business according to contemporary requirements influences companies for continuous usage of modern managerial tools, such as a human resource information system (HRIS) and electronic recruitment (ER). Human resources have been recognised as curtail resources and the main source of a competitive advantage in creation of successful business performance. In order to attract and select ...

In this paper we test the HRM/union substitution hypothesis that human resource management (HRM) practices act as a substitute for unionization. We use British workplace data between 1980 and 1998 which allows us to examine for the first time whether increased HRM incidence has coincided with union decline. First, we compare changes over time in the incidence of HRM practices across union and n...

This special issue is devoted to Professor David P. Lepak, who passed away on December 7, 2017. The meant honor Lepak’s (or affectionately called Dave among his close friends and peers) intellectual contribution the field of human resource management (HRM) academic influence many us study HRM-related topics. We first introduce by highlighting three research topics that were central Dave’s work:...