The Development of Human Capital Resource Emergence and The Effects of Emergence-Enabling State

This study aims to empirically investigate the effects of emergence-enabling states on human capital resource emergence (HCRE). The extant human capital resource theories suggest that emergence-enabling states bind unit members together, transforming and amplifying individual-level knowledge, skills, and abilities into a valuable unit-level human capital resource. Using data collected from basketball athletes in Taiwan, we deploy social network analysis and random coefficient modeling to test how different emergence-enabling states (i.e., trusting environment, coordination, and cohesion) can affect HCRE. Furthermore, we test the interaction effects among different emergence-enabling states. Our results indicated that standing alone, all emergence-enabling states tested in this study do not enhance HCRE. However, trust and cohesion can jointly facilitate HCRE, such that the teams with high levels of both trust and cohesion can have high HCRE. The theoretical implications are discussed.