1. What are the contributions in this paper?
In this paper, the authors address the production of innovation from the perspective of HRM and the pools of knowledge it produces for the company, and suggest that all these HRM practices impact a firm 's IC level, which reflects the firm 's intangible value-generating properties, including its employees skills and motivation, external relationships, and knowledge contained in information systems, documents and databases.
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2. What are the future works in this paper?
Integrating HRM practices further into the discussion on the functions of innovation systems and acknowledging the role of IC components in complementing innovation ’ s other structural enablers are viable avenues for future research.. Extending the proposed research model to alternative contexts and further exploring strategic and industry-related contingencies would, therefore, constitute fruitful avenues for further research.
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3. What is the effect of the mediation on the dependent variable?
Since the direct influence of HRM practices on the dependent variable (i.e. innovation performance) was statistically significant, partial mediation applies.
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4. How many of the respondents held positions in their firms?
Regarding respondents’ profiles, 89.44% of participants held responsible positions in their firms as managing directors (3.89%), human resource managers (67.22%) or heads of other departments (18.33%).
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