@article{2008:lacoursire:configurin,
title = {Configuring and Contextualising HR Systems: An Empirical Study of Manufacturing SMEs},
year = {2008},
note = {Human resource management (HRM) has become for SMEs a critical factor
of adaptation to an increasingly complex and uncertain business
environment. Founded on open systems and contingency theory, the
present study seeks to identify configurations of HR systems in
manufacturing SMEs, and to determine the extent to which these
configurations are associated to the environmental and organisational
context. Survey data analysis of 176 manufacturing SMEs revealed three
configurations of HR systems, namely a "strategic-high-commitment
system", a "functional-high-commitment system", and a
"traditional-low-commitment system". Differences in these systems are
associated to variables that reflect the SMEs' environmental,
organisational and technological context.},
journal = {mrev management revue},
pages = {106--125},
author = {Lacoursière, Richard and Fabi, Bruno and Raymond, Louis},
volume = {19},
number = {1-2}
}