In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the management of knowledgebased
firms (Robertson and Swan, 2004) as society shifts from an industrial age to a
fully-fledged information-based age era. Despite the expanding literature in the field of
strategic management and an emerging body of literature in strategic human resource
management (SHRM) research (for example, Wright et al., 2001), little is known
concerning SHRM in knowledge-based firms. While a significant amount of literature
exist to support the importance of leveraging knowledge as the basis of creating core