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The International Journal of Human Resource Management Volume 19, 2008 - Issue 4
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Innovation and HRM: Absences and politics

Michael Zanko School of Management and Marketing, University of Wollongong, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Richard Badham Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Macquarie University, Australia
,
Paul Couchman Department of Management, Griffith University, Australia
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Maren Schubert Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Germany
Pages 562-581 | Published online: 25 Apr 2008
 
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Abstract

This article analyses the role of HRM practices in the implementation of an innovative cross-functional approach to new product development (concurrent engineering, CE) in Eurotech Industries. Contrary to CE methodology stipulations, and despite supportive conditions, HRM received scant attention in the implementation process. Organizational power and politics were clearly involved in this situation, and this article explores how their play created such HRM ‘absences’. The article builds on a four-dimensional view of power in order to provide a deeper understanding of the embedded, interdependent and political nature of HRM practice and innovation.

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