TY - JOUR
T1 - How Do Investments in Human Resource Management Practices Affect Firm-Specific Risk in the Restaurant Industry?
AU - Park, Sungbeen
AU - Song, Sujin
AU - Lee, Seoki
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017.
PY - 2017/11/1
Y1 - 2017/11/1
N2 - Despite the importance of achieving a competitive advantage in human resources in the restaurant industry, restaurant firms often hesitate to make significant investments in human resource management (HRM) practices because of outcome uncertainty, operational issues, and limited financial resources, among other issues. Building upon the strategic human resource management (SHRM) literature, the current study attempts to better understand the HRM issues in the restaurant industry and investigate the effects of HRM practices on a firm’s risk. More specifically, we explore the separate effects of positive and negative HRM practices on firm-specific risk (i.e., unsystematic risk) in the restaurant industry. Our findings demonstrate that positive HRM practices have a nonsignificant relationship with firms’ unsystematic risk, but negative HRM practices have an inverted U-shaped relationship with unsystematic risk, supporting the stakeholder theory, theory of desensitization, and slack resource theory.
AB - Despite the importance of achieving a competitive advantage in human resources in the restaurant industry, restaurant firms often hesitate to make significant investments in human resource management (HRM) practices because of outcome uncertainty, operational issues, and limited financial resources, among other issues. Building upon the strategic human resource management (SHRM) literature, the current study attempts to better understand the HRM issues in the restaurant industry and investigate the effects of HRM practices on a firm’s risk. More specifically, we explore the separate effects of positive and negative HRM practices on firm-specific risk (i.e., unsystematic risk) in the restaurant industry. Our findings demonstrate that positive HRM practices have a nonsignificant relationship with firms’ unsystematic risk, but negative HRM practices have an inverted U-shaped relationship with unsystematic risk, supporting the stakeholder theory, theory of desensitization, and slack resource theory.
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U2 - 10.1177/1938965517704532
DO - 10.1177/1938965517704532
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85031414249
SN - 1938-9655
VL - 58
SP - 374
EP - 386
JO - Cornell Hospitality Quarterly
JF - Cornell Hospitality Quarterly
IS - 4
ER -