Reconceptualizing Human Resource Management by Inclusion of Social Networks – A Theoretical Approach

1st Interdisciplinary Workshop 'Decentralization and Networks', Siegen, Germany, 2011

4 Pages Posted: 4 Jul 2012 Last revised: 9 Jul 2012

Date Written: November 25, 2011

Abstract

Social networks are everywhere and influence an organization intensively. Through intensification of interaction in the recent years it became essential to look into the social networks from the lens of Human Resource Management. This paper develops a fitting model for the inclusion of social networks through the usage of the concept of path dependence. Thereby HRM is shifting to a dynamic and flexible environment and can lead to stability, creativity and vitality of an organization in the short and in the long term. Furthermore, HRM has not only the ability to react, but to act and establish an entrepreneurial environment of orderly value creation.

Keywords: social networks, human resource management, path dependence

Suggested Citation

Scholz, Tobias M., Reconceptualizing Human Resource Management by Inclusion of Social Networks – A Theoretical Approach (November 25, 2011). 1st Interdisciplinary Workshop 'Decentralization and Networks', Siegen, Germany, 2011, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2099382

Tobias M. Scholz (Contact Author)

University of Siegen ( email )

Hoelderlinstrasse 3
57068 Siegen, NRW 57068
Germany

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