| THE EFFECTS OF SLACK RESOURCE OF R&D PROFESSIONALS ON FIRM PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM TRADITIONAL MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN AN EMERGING ECONOMY |
Received:October 15, 2017 Revised:October 15, 2017 |
Key Words: R&D professionals, human resource, slack, void of institutions, firm performance |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | Ying Zhang* | Hong Kong Baptist University | | Ji Li | Hong Kong Baptist University | | Chang Liu | Jilin University | | Yanghong Hu | Hong Kong Baptist University | | Wanxing Jiang | Hong Kong Baptist University |
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Abstract: |
| As an important component of organizational human resource slack, the slack of research-and-development professionals has been studied by several authors. However, it remains unclear whether and how this small component of general HR slack, i.e., the slack of research-and-development professionals, may affect overall firm performance in an emerging
economy. Based on institutional theory and the resource-based view of the firm, we propose competing hypotheses on the relationship between RHR slack and different dimensions of firm performance. Our results show that neither the perspective based on institutional theory nor that based on RBV can fully predict RHR slack-performance relationships. |
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