Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management Full Paper Session - Ethics, Whistleblowing and Common-Good HRM

Reconceptualizing Common Good HRM Through an HR Ecosystem Perspective

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Michael Muller-Camen WU Vienna

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Stefanie Neubauer WU Vienna

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Juani Swart University of Bath

Abstract

Common Good HRM (CGHRM) has emerged as a concept reorienting the purpose of HRM toward social justice, sustainability and collective well-being. Nevertheless, it has been criticized for remaining overly abstract, insufficiently contextualized and weakly specified regarding mechanisms of collective action and stewardship. To address this gap, this conceptual paper advances CGHRM by integrating it with HR ecosystem approach. We reconceptualize CGHRM as an embedded, multi-actor and dynamic system in which HR practices are co-created across organizational and societal boundaries rather than controlled within firm-centric hierarchies. Thereby we shift attention from universalistic moral prescriptions toward context-sensitive processes of distributed stewardship, negotiated collective action and shared governance. We develop a conceptual matrix and three propositions specifying how CGHRM principles are enacted via HR ecosystem mechanisms through an illustrative case. The implications highlight how HR can move from control-oriented models toward co-creative forms of governance aimed at advancing the common good.

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Human Resource Management

Keywords

Strategic HRM

Published in BAM2026 Conference

Publisher X-CD Journal

Date of Conference September 7–11, 2026