Gonzalo Sánchez-Gardey

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Universidad de Cádiz

From its origins at the end of the 1970s, strategic human resource management has developed quickly. After its uncertain first steps, the number of models and explanations proposed grew exponentially, especially after some theoretical revisions presented in the 1990s. The present explosion of literature requires a systematic revision of the state o...

Drawing on Snow and Thomas's (Journal of Management Studies, 31 (1994), pp. 457–480) matrix, we empirically explore the state of the art in human resource management (HRM) research. The data were obtained through a questionnaire directed to HRM scholars all over the world, in which they were asked about their particular theoretical and methodologic...

Many different models have been recently proposed to explain the contribution of human resource management to organizational performance, drawing on diverse theoretical frameworks and using many different methodologies. Trying to shed light on the complex state of the art in this field of research, this paper proposes an analysis of the discipline,...

This article presents a literature review of academic research careers in universities. An exhaustive bibliometric analysis of academic research careers was conducted to reveal the major trends and themes regarding the topic. The authors engaged with 191 published documents generated via Web of Science. Bibliometric indicators, such as authors, jou...

International research collaboration is a crucial determinant of scientific productivity, but it remains an underdeveloped task for governments, universities and research systems. Despite important economic and institutional efforts to promote collaborations, not all researchers establish successful international connections during their academic c...

The literature confirms that organizational ambidexterity (OA) is the key to increasing an organization's prospects for survival and success in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous (VUCA) international environment. A critical review of this literature reveals that the conceptualization of OA is disorganized and ambiguous when it...

This study examines the impact of different types of human capital on the performance (reputation, customer satisfaction and organizational efficiency) of haute cuisine restaurants. The human capital is classified in three types: synchronized specialist human capital, sequential specialized human capital and ambidextrous human capital. The data wer...

Purpose This study aims to examine the connection between scholars' research performance and the multidisciplinary nature of their collaborative research. Furthermore, in response to mixed results regarding the effects of multidisciplinarity on research performance, this study explores how human resource management (HRM) practices may moderate this...

This study aims to identify a grouping of academic researchers based on how they perform academic engagement knowledge transfer (AEKT) activities. Cluster analysis was performed to classify 512 researchers from Spanish public universities according to AEKT activities. The analysis identified three profiles of researchers: (1) Non-transferring resea...

A number of studies has focused on examining those academic researchers attributes-demographics or not-that condition international research collaboration (IRC) and its results. However, it is not possible to speak about an 'ideal' type of researcher so far. Should we assume that just only those 'star researchers' collaborate interna-tionally?. The...

The perception of academic researchers on management instruments has generated significant controversy in the literature. Studies have highlighted that these perceptions affect research performance more than management itself. This work addresses this issue by proposing a subjective measurement that explains research incentives in a public universi...

Cet article vise à analyser l’influence de la motivation des membres des équipes et du comportement des leaders sur le partage des connaissances entre les universitaires d’une équipe de projet de recherche. À cette fin, une étude menée auprès de 678 chercheurs universitaires appartenant à des équipes de projet liées à plusieurs universités espagnol...

L’objectif de cet article est d’examiner la relation entre la diversité disciplinaire (multidisciplinarité) et la performance des chercheurs, en explorant le rôle modérateur du capital social. L’article contribue à la littérature expliquant les processus internes des unités de recherche multidisciplinaires et comment ils affectent la performance sc...

Ambidexterity has become an important company strategy for solving the dilemma between exploration and exploitation that exists in the highly competitive environments. Organisations may use the dimensions of intellectual capital in three different ways (paths) to build ambidextrous capabilities: through human capital, through social capital, and th...

Management scholarship should be placed in a unique position to develop relevant scientific knowledge because business and management organizations are deeply involved in most global challenges. However, different critical voices have recently been raised in essays and editorials, and reports have questioned research in the management field, identi...

The aim of this study is to examine the way top managers scan environmental conditions to diagnose and interpret issues during periods of crisis. Despite each of these processes being widely and individually represented in the research literature, there is a lack of integrative models that examine their internal dynamics in-depth. In this study, st...

Purpose: The aim of this study is to empirically analyse how motivation and the opportunity to investigate enhance the direct relation between the researcher’s human capital and individual scientific performance. Design/methodology/approach: Following recent investigations of strategic human capital and the abilities-motivation-opportunity (AMO) t...

Academic human capital (AHC) is a key element in the explanation of scientific productivity. However, few studies have analysed this topic in the academic context, and their conclusions about composition and measurement remain ambiguous. This study proposes a measurement scale to assess AHC, following a systemic procedure composed of two steps: qua...

In recent studies, researchers agree that there is a substantial gap between research and practice in the field of human resource management (HRM). The literature exploring the causes and consequences of this gap does not represent a finely structured discourse; it has focused on analysing the gap from the practitioner side, and it is based on opin...

This paper discusses the relationship between multidisciplinarity and research performance in the academic context. The paper explains how scholars’ scientific performance is affected by the multidisciplinarity of the network of colleagues with whom they conduct their research. Furthermore, this paper explores the potential moderating role of acade...

Purpose Although several previous studies were focused on examining the determinants of research productivity, the knowledge of the competences and motives that lead researchers to achieve relevant scientific performance remains unclear. This paper is aimed at contributing to this gap in the research by proposing a typology to understand academic r...

This article analyses the determinants of management scholars' scientific productivity using the intellectual capital approach. The paper contributes to the literature with a broad analysis that considers the complex integration of the intellectual capital dimensions and their joint influence on scientific productivity. To do so, we conduct semi‐st...

This article aims to analyse the influence of team members’ motivation and leaders’ behaviour on knowledge sharing among the academics of a research project team. To that end, a study of 678 academic researchers belonging to project teams linked to several Spanish universities was conducted. Hierarchical regression analysis was used to analyse the...

The aim of this article is to discuss the relationship between disciplinary diversity (multidisciplinarity) and the performance of researchers, exploring the moderating role of social capital. The article contributes to the literature explaining the internal processes of multidisciplinary research units and how they affect the scientific performanc...

Although creativity represents a cornerstone for organizations that want to keep up with competitors, customers, and the current socio-economic context, there is a dearth in the literature of systemic and comprehensive models focused on the complexity and addressing several dimensions and factors. In this context, we propose the perspective of “wor...

Purpose This paper aims to conceptualize organizational ambidexterity and intellectual capital in the haute cuisine sector, describing their interrelation. Specifically, the study draws on the dimensions of intellectual capital as a lens to understand ambidextrous capabilities. Design/methodology/approach Three research questions were addressed us...

The increasing importance of multidisciplinarity and scientific collaboration makes it necessary to explore the configuration and structure of relationships within researchers’ teams. The academic social capital construct can be particularly useful to conceptualize these internal ties. Nevertheless, the majority of studies in the academic context h...

Purpose The knowledge generated by academics in the field of management is often criticized because of its reduced relevance for professionals. In the review of the literature, the authors distinguish between three streams of thought. The review of the literature and the understanding of the research streams that have been addressed by the academi...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the development and validation of an instrument for measuring intellectual capital in the academic research context. The current research context describes a new paradigm of scientific production characterized by interdisciplinarity, heterogeneity and the intensification of the relations between the...

La investigación generada por los académicos en el campo del Management, a menudo, tiene poca relevancia para los profesionales. Esta brecha que divide a académicos y profesionales ha sido ampliamente aceptada en la literatura, generándose un amplio debate al respecto. Sin embargo, la literatura en este tópico no representa un discurso fielmente es...

It is increasingly important for the academic community to know how social capital of research group members is building; higher levels of social capital could lead to researchers to have a higher number of publications and to improve the quality of these publications. Having a greater knowledge of the role of the different dimensions of social int...

The knowledge generated by academics in the field of Management is often criticized because of its reduced relevance for professionals. In recent studies, researchers agree that there is an important gap between management research and practice. However, the literature in this topic does not represent a finely structured discourse, and for the most...

The academic literature in the field of Management is often criticized because of its little relevance to the professional community. The literature maintains that a considerable gap has been created between research and practice in this discipline, suggesting the need to develop more literature that can unite both communities. A sizeable body of l...

Purpose While previous human resources management (HRM) studies have focused on human resources (HR) practices to explain the strategic HRM–performance link, organizational communication is studied as a key HRM process and an alternative perspective explains the factors influencing communication implementation and subsequently internal HRM system...

Purpose Despite the strong influence of Hambrick and Mason’s (1984) seminal work, the effects of top management team (TMT) characteristics on strategic processes remain unclear. This study goes beyond the traditional upper echelon theory and proposes a human capital taxonomy of TMTs from the perspective of top human resources managers. Design/met...

Purpose: This paper proposes an alternative theoretical model to describe, from a multilevel perspective, the way in which ambidexterity is built across different organizational levels, through specific combinations of the facets of intellectual capital—human, social and organizational capital. Design/methodology/approach: In this study, main argu...

Purpose Considering the inconclusive results in the literature on the way organizations create ambidextrous organizational capabilities, the purpose of this paper is to present an alternative theoretical model of three different paths through which ambidexterity is built. From a multilevel perspective, the model describes how specific combinations...

Although the literature has broadly examined the effects of strategic human resource management (SHRM) on performance in the past two decades, the way the relationship manifests and the conditions the strategies must meet to influence organization-level outcomes are still unresolved. This paper discusses the association between SHRM and performance...

Purpose – This paper aims to discuss the association between human resource management and performance from a process perspective, differentiating intended and implemented vertical and horizontal fit. Although researchers have examined deeply the relationship between these constructs, extant literature demonstrates inconclusive results. Previous st...

The current study empirically analyses the influence of top management team human capital attributes on one of the most relevant stages in the human resource management strategy formulation: the core employees' identification. Drawing on recent calls from the strategic human resource management literature, this study proposes a 'process' perspectiv...

In recent years, the strategic literature has placed special emphasis on the flexibility of the structures and management mechanisms, as a necessary condition to compete in today's business environments. In fact, the strategic human resource management discipline shows a lack of consensus in terms of the definition of flexibility in this area, show...

Purpose – This paper aims to go a step further in the analysis of double fit in the human resource management (HRM) strategy context, exploring how its effect on performance is influenced by employees’ perceptions about the HRM strategy. Traditionally, the literature has considered the need for a double fit (horizontal and vertical) in the design o...

Despite the increasing academic interest, the human resource management formulation process still remains unclear. Building on human capital and talent management literatures, this study investigates how top management teams identify critical human resources. The proposed model explores how top management teams’ ability to identify core employees i...

Strategic human resource management (SHRM) emerged as a discipline focused on the strategic contribution of employees to the success of the organisation. Despite its theoretical diversity, a broad-based consensus has been reached regarding the need for considering two criteria in the design of HR strategies: vertical and horizontal fit. Nevertheles...

Although most studies in strategic human resource management literature have deeply examined the relationship between HRM and performance, extant literature has shown mixed and inconclusive results. In general, researchers have usually focused on how organizations implement their HRM strategies, using the traditional ‘content perspective’. In this...

Objeto: Partiendo de los resultados inconsistentes que la literatura ha mostrado acerca de la relación entre el rendimiento organizativo y la dirección de recursos humanos, este estudio discute la asociación entre ambas variables desde una perspectiva de proceso. Para ello, diferenciaremos entre el doble ajuste definido (vertical y horizontal) y el...

Traditionally, literature has considered the need of the double fit, vertical and horizontal fit, of the human resource strategy in organizations. Its strategic importance has been empirically demonstrated in different studies, however, the complexity of this process demands deeper theoretical analysis, which allows us to identify those elements th...

The purpose of this study is to examine how workgroup diversity can be managed through specific strategic human resource management systems. Our review shows that ‘affirmative action’ and traditional ‘diversity management’ approaches have failed to simultaneously achieve business and social justice outcomes of diversity. As previous literature has...

Los distintos trabajos que han explorado los efectos de la propiedad y el control familiar sobre la efi ciencia de las pequeñas y medianas empresas han llegado a conclusiones dispares e incluso, en muchos casos, contradictorias. Este trabajo discute las limitaciones presentes en este tipo de estudios y, partiendo de ellas, propone un modelo específ...

This paper proposes an analysis of efficiency differences between family and non family controlled SME’s. The financial and organisational peculiaritiesof this kind of firms are discussed, drawing on Agency and Transaction Costs theories. Due to the empirically demonstrated importance of size in the differentiation between these two types of organi...

Past empirical studies have demonstrated that differences among group members may have both positive and negative effects on decision-making processes. As direct models have failed to explain such intricate consequences, recent work has begun to propose models that are more complex by including mediating and moderating variables. In general, the li...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to link previous research on diversity, social capital and strategic human resource management (SHRM), and propose a model to explain how an SHRM system can moderate the effects of diversity on cognitive and relational dimensions of social capital. Design/methodology/approach Quantitative methodologies were use...

Partiendo de una muestra de 765 pequeñas y medianas empresas, este artículo presenta un estudio exploratorio de la medida en la que la propiedad familiar incide sobre la orientación estratégica de este tipo de organizaciones. A través de un análisis clúster, se identificaron conglomerados de empresas dentro de la muestra, que se asocian con diferen...

The objective of this paper is to analyse the strategic importance of team working, a structural and organisational choice that is rapidly gaining importance within businesses. To do so, the article draws on the Resource-based View (RBV) of the Firm, a recurrent paradigm in this field of research, which helps to describe the conditions under which...

In the last decades, the Human Resource Management discipline has incorporated inputs from different strategic, organizational, sociological, y economic theories. In this paper, we try to shed some light to the complex state of the art in HRM research, which is nowadays characterised by the multiplicity of theories, approaches y methodologies. To d...

La dirección de los recursos humanos (DRH) se ha nutrido, en las últimas décadas, de aportaciones provenientes del pensamiento estratégico, organizativo, sociológico y económico. Esta realidad ha contribuido a configurarla como un campo en el que conviven una multiplicidad de enfoques teóricos, aproximaciones y metodologías de investigación. En est...

Emergency units suffer from continuous overload because all types of users demand the service. The literature shows that in general, the percentage of non-urgent users varies from 20 per cent to 80 per cent, depending on the type of centre analysed, the research approach or the methodology. While some studies have analysed this phenomenon focusing...

There are few researches on the field of human resources in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), since most of them focus their approaches on large organizations. The other hand, in spite of the importante of human resources management in these kind of organizations due to their great capacity of creating employment, as well as the major role...

El campo de los recursos humanos puede considerarse como un ámbito de investigación relativamente joven. Desde que a finales de la década de los setenta, diversos trabajos proponen una aproximación diferente en la que se abandona la vieja orientación administrativista, al tiempo que se aboga por una reorientación de la investigación (Galbraith & Na...

The transformation of actual societies draws organizations characterised more than ever by diverse workforces. Under this new circumstance, strategic human resource management models must be reconsidered, to break the classic assumption that employees constitute a generic and homogeneous category. In this sense, this paper defines diversity as a mu...

Este trabajo plantea un análisis empírico de las diferencias de eficiencia entre las empresas familiares y no familiares, medida a través de tres indicadores subrogados (rentabilidad financiera, rentabilidad económica y margen de explotación). El estudio empírico, desarrollado sobre una muestra de 765 empresas andaluzas, no permite contrastar ningu...