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49
Citations
33320
World Ranking
1008
National Ranking
436

Overview

David P. Lepak was affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research spanned several areas within Business, Management and Accounting, with a strong focus on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

Their scholarly output included work connected to topics such as:

  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Customer Service Quality and Loyalty
  • Employer Branding and e-HRM
  • Gender Diversity and Inequality
  • Family Business Performance and Succession

Lepak contributed to publications in prominent venues, including:

  • The International Journal of Human Resource Management
  • Human Resource Management Review

Among notable papers by Lepak were the following:

  • "HR practice salience: explaining variance in employee reactions to HR practices" (2020), published in The International Journal of Human Resource Management
  • "Gravity's pull: The identity-related motives and outcomes of hiring stars" (2022), published in Human Resource Management Review

Frequent collaborators in their research included:

  • Sargam Garg
  • Kaifeng Jiang
  • Matthew CB Lyle
  • Rory Eckardt
  • Kevin G. Corley

Throughout their career, Lepak engaged with diverse topics that intersected organizational behavior and human resource practices, with a multifaceted approach addressing employee reactions, identity motives in hiring, and issues related to gender diversity and family business dynamics.

Best Publications

  • The Human Resource Architecture: Toward a Theory of Human Capital Allocation and Development

    David P. Lepak;Scott A. Snell

  • Human resource management, manufacturing strategy, and firm performance

    Mark A. Youndt;Scott A. Snell;James W. Dean;David P. Lepak

  • How Does Human Resource Management Influence Organizational Outcomes? A Meta-analytic Investigation of Mediating Mechanisms

    Kaifeng Jiang;David P. Lepak;Jia Hu;Judith C. Baer

  • Value Creation and Value Capture: A Multilevel Perspective

    David P. Lepak;Ken G. Smith;M. Susan Taylor

  • Examining the Human Resource Architecture: The Relationships Among Human Capital, Employment, and Human Resource Configurations

    David P. Lepak;Scott A. Snell

  • EMPLOYEE ATTRIBUTIONS OF THE “WHY” OF HR PRACTICES: THEIR EFFECTS ON EMPLOYEE ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORS, AND CUSTOMER SATISFACTION

    Lisa Hisae Nishii;David P Lepak;Benjamin Schneider

  • A Conceptual Review of Human Resource Management Systems in Strategic Human Resource Management Research

    David P. Lepak;Hui Liao;Yunhyung Chung;Erika E. Harden

  • Do They See Eye to Eye? Management and Employee Perspectives of High-Performance Work Systems and Influence Processes on Service Quality

    Hui Liao;Keiko Toya;David P. Lepak;Ying Hong

  • An empirical examination of the mechanisms mediating between high-performance work systems and the performance of Japanese organizations.

    Riki Takeuchi;David P. Lepak;Heli Wang;Kazuo Takeuchi

  • THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS OF A SOCIAL SYSTEM: CROSS‐LEVEL EFFECTS OF HIGH‐PERFORMANCE WORK SYSTEMS ON EMPLOYEES’ ATTITUDES

    Riki Takeuchi;Gilad Chen;David P. Lepak

  • Unlocking the black box: exploring the link between high-performance work systems and performance

    Jake G. Messersmith;Pankaj C. Patel;David P. Lepak;Julian Seymour Gould-Williams

  • Virtual HR: Strategic human resource management in the 21st century

    David P. Lepak;Scott A. Snell

  • Clarifying the construct of human resource systems: Relating human resource management to employee performance

    Kaifeng Jiang;David P. Lepak;Kyongji Han;Ying Hong

  • AN INTEGRATIVE VIEW OF INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

    Riki Takeuchi;Paul E. Tesluk;Seokhwa Yun;David P. Lepak

  • Walking the Tightrope: An Assessment of the Relationship between High-Performance Work Systems and Organizational Ambidexterity

    Pankaj C. Patel;Jake G. Messersmith;David P. Lepak

  • A Systematic Review of Human Resource Management Systems and Their Measurement

    Corine Boon;Deanne N. Den Hartog;David P. Lepak

  • Resource-Based Perspectives on Unit-Level Human Capital A Review and Integration

    Anthony J. Nyberg;Thomas P. Moliterno;Donald Hale;David P. Lepak

  • Employment Flexibility and Firm Performance: Examining the Interaction Effects of Employment Mode, Environmental Dynamism, and Technological Intensity:

    David P. Lepak

  • Integrating strategic human capital and strategic human resource management

    Corine Boon;Rory Eckardt;David P. Lepak;Paul Boselie

  • Where do we go from here? New perspectives on the black box in strategic human resource management research

    Kaifeng Jiang;Kaifeng Jiang;Kaifeng Jiang;Riki Takeuchi;Riki Takeuchi;Riki Takeuchi;David P. Lepak;David P. Lepak;David P. Lepak

Frequent Co-Authors

Riki Takeuchi
Riki Takeuchi The University of Texas at Dallas
Scott A. Snell
Scott A. Snell University of Virginia
Pankaj C. Patel
Pankaj C. Patel Villanova University
Benjamin Schneider
Benjamin Schneider University of Maryland, College Park
Kathryn M. Bartol
Kathryn M. Bartol University of Maryland, College Park
Gilad Chen
Gilad Chen University of Maryland, College Park
Paul E. Tesluk
Paul E. Tesluk University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Henry P. Sims
Henry P. Sims University of Maryland, College Park
Hui Liao
Hui Liao University of Maryland, College Park
Wendy R. Boswell
Wendy R. Boswell Texas A&M University

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