Gestión de recursos humanos e innovaciónlecciones aprendidas en ciclos económicos favorables
ISSN: 0006-6249
Year of publication: 2011
Volume: 66
Issue: 203
Pages: 185-197
Type: Article
More publications in: Boletín de estudios económicos
Abstract
It has been argued recently that firms should generate more innovations for getting rid of financial crises. From a perspective based on Human Resource Management (HRM) it has been demonstrated that investments on personnel positively contribute to innovative performance. In this paper, we present a longitudinal study about some successful HRM practices and innovation in a big sample of Spanish industrial firms during the period 2001-2008 –selected as years of economic wealthy in Spain. Data analyses demonstrate that the firms that invested on their employees were more innovative than firms that did not. As a conclusion, HRM function can be understood as the origin of firm competitiveness and leverage for changing the economic cycle, if managers learn the lesson.
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