HPWS, Corporate Entrepreneurship, and Performance: The Moderating Role of Dysfunctional Competition

According to the strategic human resource management theory, the implementation of high performance work systems (HPWS) could draw support from human resource practices to directly contribute to firms' competitive advantage thus improving firm performance. There has been a lot of research in academy on the relationship between HPWS and firm performance. However, the mechanism underlying the relationship above has been understudied. Based on the perspective of dynamic capacities, we explored the mediating role played by corporate entrepreneurship in the relationship between HPWS and firm performance and investigated dysfunctional competition, which is a highly salient feature of the competitive environment faced by firms in China's high-tech development zones (HTDZ) in transition economy, as a moderating effect. Data were collected from 436 firms of 15 China's national HTDZ located in the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, and Bohai Economic Rim Area. Results showed that corporate entrepreneurship ful...