High-involvement work practices and environmental capabilities: How HIWPS create environmentally based sustainable competitive advantages
Javier Martínez-del-Río, José Céspedes-Lorente, Eva Carmona-Moreno
Human Resource Management · 2012 · Volume 51 · Issue 6
Abstract
We study how high-involvement work practices (HIWPs) may enhance a firm's economic performance through the development of a proactive environmental strategy (PES). HIWP systems facilitate the implementation of a PES by promoting employees' ability, motivation, and opportunities to behave in ways consistent with environmental management goals. In turn, PESs contribute to the development of strategic competitive advantages and drive superior performance. The results of our empirical analysis of 233 firms broadly confirm our hypotheses and suggest that although the direct effect of HIWPs on performance was not signifi cant in our sample, HIWPs do have a significant indirect effect through a PES as a mediator.
Keywords
environmental proactivity, high-involvement work practices, firm performance, resource-based view
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