Antecedents of high performance work practices in SMEs: an attention-based view
研究了中小企业高层管理者通过环境扫描获取的信息如何影响高绩效工作实践的使用，发现竞争追踪、行业协会参与和社交网络嵌入性会促进这些实践，而竞争强度感知起调节作用。
Relative to the large body of work in the broader strategic HRM (SHRM) literature, knowledge about determinants of SMEs’ approaches to HRM remains limited. We argue that heterogeneity in the use of high performance work practices (HPWPs) is influenced by top managers’ exposure and attention to information obtained via environmental scanning. Invoking an attention-based view (ABV), we develop hypotheses suggesting that competition tracking, participation in trade associations, and social network embeddedness will be associated with greater use of HPWPs. We also propose direct and moderating roles for top managers’ perceptions of competitive intensity. We test our hypotheses using a database comprised of a combination of archival data and mail survey responses from 260 agricultural SMEs located in geographical clusters. Our results broadly support this study’s hypotheses and contribute to a better understanding of the role of top managers’ environmental scanning in the shaping of HPWPs in SMEs.