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New HRM Practices and Exploitative Innovation: A Shopfloor Level Analysis

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  • Grazia D. Santangelo
  • Paolo Pini

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Extant research documents a positive relationship between the adoption of new human resource management (HRM) practices at the managerial and shopfloor level, and innovation performance, respectively. However, studies focusing on the managerial level distinguish between different types of innovation, while studies at the shopfloor level regard innovation as a homogenous activity. No previous studies have explicitly accounted for innovation heterogeneity in relation to the adoption of new HRM practices at the shopfloor level. Thus, it is still an open question whether and to what extent the findings at the managerial level apply to the shopfloor level. We address this question by focusing on the introduction of exploitative technological innovation and the adoption of new HRM practices at the firm's lowest hierarchical level. We suggest a positive relation between the two via the firm's productive capabilities as employees' ability and learning incrementally improve the firm's existing products and processes. Our argument is successfully tested on a sample of 166 Italian firms.

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  • Grazia D. Santangelo & Paolo Pini, 2011. "New HRM Practices and Exploitative Innovation: A Shopfloor Level Analysis," Industry and Innovation, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(6), pages 611-630, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:indinn:v:18:y:2011:i:6:p:611-630
    DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2011.591977
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    1. Riccardo Leoni, 2018. "Efficienza ed efficacia della contrattazione integrativa aziendale. Una rassegna della letteratura empirica italiana," Economia & lavoro, Carocci editore, issue 1, pages 131-170.
    2. Davide Antonioli & Paolo Pini & Roberto Antonietti, 2014. "Flexible pay systems and labour productivity: Evidence from Emilia-Romagna manufacturing firms," Working Papers 2014143, University of Ferrara, Department of Economics.
    3. Ruba Kutieshat & Panteha Farmanesh, 2022. "The Impact of New Human Resource Management Practices on Innovation Performance during the COVID 19 Crisis: A New Perception on Enhancing the Educational Sector," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(5), pages 1-21, March.
    4. F. Landini & C. Franco, 2020. "Organizational Drivers of Innovation: The Role of Workforce Agility," Economics Department Working Papers 2020-EP01, Department of Economics, Parma University (Italy).
    5. Davide Antonioli & Massimiliano Mazzanti & Sandro Montresor & Paolo Pini, 2015. "Outsourcing and Firm Productivity in a Specific Local Production System: Evidence from Reggio Emilia (Italy)," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 46(2), pages 292-320, June.
    6. Franco, Chiara & Landini, Fabio, 2022. "Organizational drivers of innovation: The role of workforce agility," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 51(2).
    7. Riccardo Leoni, 2013. "Organization of work practices and productivity: an assessment of research on world- class manufacturing," Chapters, in: Anna Grandori (ed.), Handbook of Economic Organization, chapter 17, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    8. Divella, Marialuisa & Sterlacchini, Alessandro, 2021. "Determinants of sustainable & responsible innovations: A firm-level analysis for Italy," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 59(C), pages 360-374.

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