It is widely believed that the implementation of progressive HR practices that affect employee skills, motivation, and behaviors can create strategic advantage for the organization (e.g., Arthur, 1994; Delaney and Huselid, 1996; Snell & Dean, 1992). However, the intervening mechanisms of this effect are...

Information technology is altering the context within which HRM operates, providing both challenges and opportunities. At the core of the change is network centricity or netcentricity, which is the power of digital networks to distribute information instantly and on a global scale. The new...