Strategic Human Capital

2010 will be the first year SMS members can join the new Interest Group, Strategic Human Capital. The leadership committee listed below are part of the foundation and launch of the Strategic Human Capital IG. If you are a current member and are interested in joining this Interest Group, please contact the SMS office.

The Strategic Human Capital Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society 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:

• How can firms purposefully create valuable firm-level human capital heterogeneity?
• What are the mechanisms that link human capital to firm-level outcomes?
• How do firms best manage the value appropriation challenges presented by “star” employees?
• To what extent can firms gain competitive advantage through “people?” 
• 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 human capital productivity within industries?
• How does human capital emerge and interact with other forms of intellectual capital (e.g., social capital, organizational capital) to influence firm-level outcomes?