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Research seminar at Ca Foscari University, Venice

robikase — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:35:32 +0000

This Monday I held a research seminar entitled “Social network perspectives and methodology in HRM research” to a group of PhD students and colleagues at Ca’ Foscari University, Faculty of Economics. Located in the Italian city of Venice, it was founded in 1868 as the first Italian business college. The main building of the University, Ca’ Foscari Palace, is placed in a strategic position on the bend of the Grand Canal, in the heart of Venice. The audience had several really challenging questions about the topic. In addition, we discussed various publishing strategies.

The hosts were extremely hospitable and my stay in this beautiful city was very enjoyable.

Just published in the Human Resource Management (Wiley)…

robikase — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:55:49 +0000

Together with Jaap Paauwe and Nada Zupan we just published a paper at the Human Resource Management. It is a part of what all the contributors believe a potentially very influential special issue on HRM and Knowledge Processes edited by Dana Minbaeva, Nicolai Foss and Scott Snell. The title is: HR practices, interpersonal relations, and intrafirm knowledge transfer in knowledge-intensive firms: a social network perspective.

Here is the abstract:

We adopt the social network perspective to develop a conceptual model and examine the relationship among human resource (HR) practices, interpersonal relations, and intrafirm knowledge transfer in knowledge-intensive firms. Our results indicate that work design, along with training and development HR practices, can shape the structural relation. At the same time, both also exhibit potential for shaping affective and cognitive relations within a firm’s social network. While the effects of work design along with training and development HR practices on intrafirm knowledge transfer are primarily mediated by interpersonal relations, we found some evidence for arguing that incentives and motivation HR practices directly affect intrafirm knowledge transfer.

Research Seminar at Copenhagen Business School

robikase — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:49:37 +0000

This Wednesday I was speaking at the Center for Strategic Management and Globalization – Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. See the abstract of the research seminar below:

Practical Issues of Adopting Social Network Perspectives and Methodologies in HRM Research

In the seminar the research project Effects of HR Practices on Knowledge Transfer in Knowledge-Intensive Firms: The Mediating Role of Social Network Dimensions will be used as an example of how social network perspectives and methodology can be used in human resource management research. Decisions that a researcher has to make when adopting social network perspectives and the tools that are available will be presented and discussed. The emphasis will be on developing appropriate research designs, gathering actor-based and relational data, selecting appropriate methods for data analysis, and performing confirmatory social network analyses (MRQAP, p*). The seminar will conclude with a discussion about opportunities and limitations of social network perspectives and methodology for management research in the near future.

I have really enjoyed the hospitality of my hosts and together with my colleagues Dana Minbaeva and Zella King made significant progress on a very promising research paper.