Follow which leader? Spatial mimicry and broad-based equity- and profit-sharing plans

IF 5.4 2区管理学 Q1 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR

Human Resource Management Journal Pub Date : 2024-10-15 DOI:10.1111/1748-8583.12578

Colin Birkhead, Mark C. Hand

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Organizations have both local and nationally prominent peers from which they can model their human resource management practices. How does a focal organization reconcile the influence of smaller, spatially proximate peer organizations with the influence of prominent, distant organizations? We develop the concept of spatial mimetic gravity to estimate the mimetic pressures a focal organization feels from its geographically proximate and distant peers. We examine the population of craft beer brewers in the United States between 2013 and 2019 and find that the propensity to offer a stock ownership or profit-sharing plan is a function of a focal brewery's spatial proximity to its peers and their prominence. We help explain why some firms offer broad-based equity-sharing and profit-sharing plans and others do not. In doing so, we argue that organizational spatial mimicry is best understood from a gravity approach, adding a field-level explanation to previously individually focused theory about organizational choices.

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2.80

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期刊介绍： Human Resource Management Journal (CABS/AJG 4*) is a globally orientated HRM journal that promotes the understanding of human resource management to academics and practicing managers. We provide an international forum for discussion and debate, and stress the critical importance of people management to wider economic, political and social concerns. Endorsed by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, HRMJ is essential reading for everyone involved in personnel management, training, industrial relations, employment and human resource management.