Strategic Human Resource Management and Organizational Effectiveness: Essays Celebrating and Advancing the Scholarship of David P. Lepak (1971-2017)

This book on human resource management (HRM) research builds upon and extends the work of Professor David P. Lepak who was the Berthiaume Endowed Chair of Business Leadership in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Professor Lepak was an internationally renowned HRM scholar who believed in giving back to his profession and was committed to introduce his research findings to students as well as the business community.

In addition to being a tribute to Professor Lepak and his work, this volume aims to help organizations and managers understand how to use human resource management to benefit employees while achieving organizational effectiveness. The chapters in this volume focus on strategic management of human capital resources, strategic HRM and multilevel HRM ―areas of research that were central to Professor Lepak’s academic contributions. These chapters together provide important theoretical and practical implications for understanding how organizations can use HRM to generate and utilize their strategic human capital resources and how HRM interacts with internal and external factors to influence important employee and organizational outcomes.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of Human Resource Management.

Riki Takeuchi is Dr. Joseph Picken Distinguished Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Naveen Jindal School of Management, USA. He is an elected fellow of American Psychological Association, Association for Psychological Science, and Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He was the first doctoral student of David P. Lepak.

Yaping Gong is a Chair professor at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. He studies creativity, innovation, teams, strategic and international human resource management. His work has received awards including Emerald Citation of Excellence (2013, 2016). He served as an Associate Editor for Academy of Management Perspectives (2018-2021).

Corine Boon is Associate Professor of Human Resource Management at the University of Amsterdam Business School, Netherlands. She received her PhD from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research focuses primarily on strategic human resource management, people analytics, and person-environment fit.

Kaifeng Jiang is Professor of Management and Human Resources and a core faculty member of Translational Data Analytics Institute at The Ohio State University, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree in Industrial Relations and Human Resources from Rutgers University and does research on strategic human resource management.