The Oxford Handbook of Human Capital

Macroeconomic research on human capital - the stock of human capabilities and knowledge - has been extensively published but to date the literature has lacked a comprehensive analysis of human capital within the organization. The Oxford Handbook of Human Capital has been designed to fill that gap, providing an authoritative, inter-disciplinary, and up to date survey of relevant concepts, research areas, and applications. Specially commissioned contributions from over 40 authors reveal the importance of human capital for contemporary organizations, exploring its conceptual underpinnings, relevance to theories of the firm, implications for organizational effectiveness, interdependencies with other resources, and role in the future economy. Unlike neoclassical macroeconomic concepts of human capital, human capital in organizations is shown to be dynamic and heterogeneous, requiring new theories and management frameworks. The systemic role of human capital is explored, revealing it as the lynchpin of social, structural and other forms of intangible and tangible capital. Connections between human capital and organizational performance are investigated from HR management, procurement, alignment, value appropriation, and accounting perspectives. Links between micro and macro perspectives are provided through analyses of inter firm human capital mobility, national and regional human capital formation regimes and industry employment relations practices. This Handbook is designed for scholars and graduate students of organization and management theory, strategy, entrepreneurship, knowledge and intellectual capital, accounting, IT, HR, IR, economic sociology and cultural studies. For policy makers and practitioners it should provide an up to date guide to the nature and role of human capital in contemporary organizations and the roles that government, industry and other extra firm institutions can play in facilitating its development. Contributors to this volume - Soon Ang, Goh Tjoei Kok Endowed Chair and Professor of Management and Head of the Division of Strategy, Management, and Organization, the Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Margaret M. Blair, Economist, Law and Business Faculty, Vanderbilt University Rocio Bonet, Assistant Professor, IE Business School, Madrid, Spain Peter Boxall, Professor of Human Resource Management and Associate Dean for Research in the Business School, the University of Auckland Rhett Brymer, Ph.D. student of strategic management, the Mays Business School, Texas A&M University Alan Burton-Jones, Principal of an international management consultancy practice, and senior visiting lecturer at New South Wales, Griffith and Bond Universities Andrew Burton-Jones, Assistant Professor, the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia Peter Cappelli, George W. Taylor Professor of Management, The Wharton School and Director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources Thomas Clarke, Professor of Management and Director of the Key University Research Centre for Corporate Governance research, the University of Technology, Sydney Russ Coff, Associate Professor of Organization and Management, Emory University Nicolai J Foss, Professor of Organization and Strategy, the Copenhagen Business School and the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration Robert Grant, Eni Chair in Strategic Management, Bocconi University James Guthrie, Professor, Bologna University, and Honorary Professor, the University of Sydney Monika Hamori, Professor of Human Resource Management, IE Business School, Madrid, Spain James C. Hayton, Associate Professor, L. Bocconi University and Professor at SDA Bocconi Michael Hitt, Distinguished Professor of Management, Texas A&M University Thomas Kochan, George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management and Professor of Work and Employment Research, the MIT Sloan School of Management Jeroen Kraaijenbrink, Assistant Professor, Nikos, the Dutch Institute for Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship at the University of Twente Robin Kramar, Professor and Deputy Dean and Director of Accreditation at MGSM, Macquarie University David Lepak, Professor of Human Resource Management and Department Chair of the HRM department,the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University Peter Lewin, Clinical Professor of Economics, the University of Texas at Dallas Adam Seth Litwin, Assistant Professor, the Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University Brian Loasby, Emeritus and Honorary Professor of Economics, University of Stirling Vijaya Murthy, lecturer and a PhD student, the Discipline of Accounting, University of Sydney Janine Nahapiet, Associate Fellow of the Said Business School and Green Templeton College, University of Oxford Kok-Yee Ng, Associate Professor in Management, the Nanyang Technological University, and Director of Research at the Center for Leadership and Cultural Intelligence Ikujiro Nonaka, Professor Emeritus of Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University, Xerox Distinguished Faculty Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, and also First Distinguished Drucker Scholar in Residence at the Drucker School and Institute, Claremont Graduate University David O'Donnell, Intellectual Capital Research Institute, Ireland Sean O Riain, Professor of Sociology and Department Head, the National University of Ireland, Maynooth Vesa Peltokorpi, Assistant Professor in human resource management, HEC School of Management, Paris Mario Schijven, Assistant Professor of Management, Texas A&M University Peter D. Sherer, Associate Professor, the Haskayne School of Business,University of Calgary J.-C. Spender, researcher, writer, and lecturer in organization theory, ESADE/Lund Juani Swart, Director, the Work and Employment research Centre (WERC), the University of Bath Riki Takeuchi, Associate Professor, the School of Business and Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Mei Ling Tan, doctoral candidate in management at the Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University David Teece, Tusher Professor in Global Business, the Haas School of Business, the University of California, Berkeley Ryoko Toyama, Professor at the Graduate School of Strategic Management, Chuo University in Tokyo, Japan Jacqueline Vischer, Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Design, the Universite de Montreal Georg von Krogh, Chair of Strategic Management and Innovation and Professor, ETH Zurich Martin W. Wallin, postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland