Market characteristics, intra-firm coordination, and the choice of human resource management systems: Theory and evidence

► Team-theoretical model of organizational adaptation and coordination with three distinct task coordination modes: vertical control, horizontal coordination, and hybrid coordination. ► Fresh insights on complementarities involving team work organization, communication channels, training and hiring, and other human resource management practices. ► Illumination of how such choice of practices is affected by the firm's output market conditions. ► Supporting evidence from new Japanese data on the adoption of new team-based instruments for a horizontal coordination system.