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An analytical model for human resource management as an enabler of organizational renewal: a framework for corporate entrepreneurship

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This article presents the development of a model of types of work based on organizational theory. It analyzes the different characteristics of work and efficient forms of Management, and joins all these aspects together in terms of corporate entrepreneurship. Organizational theory provides the instruments needed to manage work, the causes that make decentralization desirable and the technical, social and institutional mechanisms for its control. The literature on corporate entrepreneurship provides material for forms of discovery or creation of opportunities based on accumulated experience in the firm, on the collective relationships linked to entrepreneurship and on the way in which resources are managed. This article contributes to existing knowledge by systematically addressing these two fields, showing how the instruments that allow for the efficient management of work are the same as those necessary for corporate entrepreneurship and how the efficient management of work is a prerequisite and an enabler of entrepreneurial activity.

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  1. Other authors for whom, either explicitly or implicitly, work is the basic reference for their theories, include all the literature on human resources (for example, Storey 2001; Hayton 2005; Arthur and Boyles 2007), knowledge-based literature (Nonaka and Takeuchi 1995; Tsoukas 2005), and the authors that link the formation of strategy to firm activities (Johnson et al. 2003; Jarzabkowski 2005; Wittington 2006).

  2. Brackets and italics inserted. This statement from Perrow is important and he makes it in one of his most orthodox studies from within the contingency theory.

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Peris-Ortiz, M. An analytical model for human resource management as an enabler of organizational renewal: a framework for corporate entrepreneurship. Int Entrep Manag J 5, 461–479 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-009-0119-2

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