Toward a Theory of Perceived Firm-Specific Human Capital

By Russell W. Coff, Joseph Raffiee. 2015

132 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Safety Research, Strategy and Management

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In Management of Technology and Innovation

1. Steven C. Michael
2. Robert E. Ployhart
3. Joseph T. Mahoney
4. Anita M. McGahan
5. N. J. Foss
6. Clint Chadwick

In Safety Research

1. Anita M. McGahan
2. Robert E. Ployhart
3. Joseph T. Mahoney

In Strategy and Management

1. Anita M. McGahan
2. Joseph T. Mahoney
3. Steven C. Michael
4. Shawn M. Riley
5. Robert E. Ployhart
6. Clint Chadwick
7. Russell W. Coff
8. Yasemin Y. Kor

Citations in the corpus

• The strategic management of high-growth firms:a review and theoretical conceptualization (2017, unknown): “Nevertheless, although the concept of human capital is wide enough to cover proxies like organization members’ training, experience, and intelligence (Becker, 1964), we see a number of potential limitations and prospects for specifying its relationship to high growth and its potential as a source of”
• Micro-Foundations of Firm-Specific Human Capital: When Do Employees Perceive Their Skills to be Firm-Specific? (2016, unknown): “However, this logic requires labor markets to be informationally efficient in that actors have unbiased estimates of general human capital and FSHC (Campbell, Coff, & Kryscynski, 2012; Coff & Raffiee, 2015).”
• Integrating Insights From the Resource-Based View of the Firm Into the New Stakeholder Theory (2021, background): “Causal ambiguity in the team production function creates paradoxes and dilemmas both for the worker and for the organization (Coff & Krycynski, 2011; Coff & Raffiee, 2015).”
• Human capital matters: Market valuation of firm investments in training and the role of complementary assets (2017, background): “Existing research suggests that such investments are likely to lead to superior financial performance when the human capital is firm-specific (Coff & Raffiee, 2015; Crook, Todd, Combs, Woehr, & Ketchen, 2011; Mayer, Somaya, & Williamson, 2012; Wang, He, & Mahoney, 2009).”
• Resources for What? Understanding Performance in the Resource-Based View and Strategic Human Capital Resource Literatures (2021, background): “Coff and Raffiee (2015) find that employee perceptions of firm specificity are inconsistent with theorized predictions.”