This handbook provides a much needed, authoritative and inter-disciplinary survey of concepts, applications and research on human capital, the stock of human capabilities and knowledge found in organisations.

Leading international scholars focus on organisational well being in its widest sense, and is concerned with reviewing the factors which are associated with ill health, as well as those which promote positive health and well being.

This book compares legally allowed dismissal conditions in employment contracts in Taiwan and Japan and then examines the possibility of introducing the Taiwan-style severance payment system into Japanese employment contracts. A significant difference exists between employment regulations of...

As human capital is the source of innovation, one of the policy principles of the OECD Innovation Strategy is to "foster innovative workplaces". Education and training systems must rise to the challenge of providing people with the means to learn and re-train throughout their life. Companies and...

Contents: Foreword / J. Stewart Black -- Part I History of expatriate studies and its current state of play -- 1. Introduction : overview of early expatriate studies, 1952 to 1979 / Yvonne McNulty and Jan Selmer -- 2. The concept of business expatriates / Yvonne McNulty and Chris Brewster -- 3....

Evidence suggests that research on mentorship has been dominated by the West, and little is known about the cultural variations of the mentoring phenomenon. While some research has begun in emerging economies such as China and India, there is obviously a need for more research in different...

Contents: Part I: Introduction -- 1. Innovation management: perspectives from strategy, product, process and human resource research / Vida Škudienė, Jason Li-Ying and Fabian Bernhard -- Part II: Innovation management strategy -- 2. Innovation management through technology licensing in China /...

Seit einem Vierteljahrhundert ist die Management Revue Plattform für Forschungsergebnisse der Verwaltungswissenschaft und Management Studies. Die Zeitschrift richtet sich in erster Linie an Autoren, die institutionelle Besonderheiten von Managementinfrastrukturen und Organisationen im...