Exploring the Link Between Strategic Human Resource Management, Organizational Culture, and Corporate Entrepreneurship

Abstract

Today's dynamic and highly volatile environment underlines the relevance of corporate entrepreneurship in all types of organizations to respond to current and forthcoming forces in a sustainable way. While extant research has identified several factors that impact corporate entrepreneurship, our understanding of how corporate entrepreneurship is impacted by strategic human resource management (SHRM) is underdeveloped. Drawing upon a dataset from 185 HR managers in Eastern Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Western Austria, this study replicates the study of Wei et al. (2008) and examines the role of organizational culture in the SHRM adoption and implementation process and transfers their research design into the context of corporate entrepreneurship. The results indicate that SHRM impacts the implementation of organizational culture and that different HRM systems affect the implementation of different types of organizational culture.