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Training and Hiring Strategies to Improve Firm Performance

Maliranta, Mika; Asplund, Rita - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007

We study how upgrading the skills of the personnel affects a firms performance. Two different strategies are examined : 1) providing formal training and 2) strategic recruitment and separation policy. The use of register-based longitudinal employer-employee data supplemented with a survey on...

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Occupational Segregation during the the 1980s and 1990s - The Case of Finnish Manufacturing

Napari, Sami - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2005

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Innovation Does Not Equal R&D. Strategic Innovation Profiles and Firm Growth

Ketokivi, Mikko; Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2010

In this paper, we examine firm innovation and its link to firm growth. Instead of using the conventional … conceptualization and operationalization of innovation in terms of the R&D budget, we use a more elaborate 12-dimensional … conceptualization, which takes into account also the non-technological aspects of innovation. The 12-dimensional operationaliza …

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A Comparative Survey of Structural Characteristics of Finnish University Departments

Deschryvere, Matthias - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2009

This descriptive paper analyses structural characteristics of Finnish university departments (FIDs) and benchmarks them against foreign university departments from Scandinavia, the UK and the US (FODs). In the first place the study aims to reveal information on differences in department size. In...

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The Impact of Technological and Non-Technological Innovations on Firm Growth

Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; Martikainen, Olli - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008

This study investigates the relationship between innovations and firm growth, based on the data of Finnish firms operating in the software industry. We find that in terms of turnover and employment, firms with only technological innovations do not grow more rapidly than other firms. However,...

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