Is the resource-based 'view' a useful perspective for SHRM research? The case of the video game industry

An analysis of Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) of firms in the French video game industry is conducted with a special view on the resource-based view of the firm. It was observed that, in the video game industry the creative individual HR due to their characteristics cannot be managed by established firms with externalization being the only alternative by the video games companies to combat the management issues associated to creative HR.