Abstract
Using stochastic frontier production functions methodology with data from 1579 private-sector establishments, we demonstrate that HR practices are significantly associated with differences in relative firm-level efficiency. Supplemental analysis implies that this efficiency analysis is substantively different than the common approach to evaluating HRM's relationships with firm-level labor productivity. The results suggest that HR practices' contributions to relative firm-level efficiency are an important but heretofore overlooked factor in the relationship between HRM and firm performance.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 704-730 |
| Number of pages | 27 |
| Journal | Industrial Relations |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| State | Published - Jul 2012 |