Part 1. Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 1. Why Immigrant Entrepreneurs are More Prone to Exit Than Non-immigrant Entrepreneurs? -- Chapter 2. Hawkers’ Attitude on Environmentally-friendly Food Packaging Practices in Night Market -- Part 2. Human Resources Management & Education -- Chapter 3....

Human resource management (HRM) has become for SMEs a critical factor of adaptation to an increasingly complex and uncertain business environment. Founded on open systems and contingency theory, the present study seeks to identify configurations of HR systems in manufacturing SMEs, and to...

Dark Side of Digitalisation: Discussion on Information Confidentiality and its Protection Mechanisms -- Main Challenges and Disruptions to Supply Chain Management in Adopting the Blockchain Technology -- Sustainable Human Resource Management and Innovation -- Building the Culture of Developing...

Personnel economics is a rather young academic (sub-)discipline that applies (micro) economic methodology and insights to the personnel function of companies. It is scientifically fertile and complementary to other disciplinary approaches to personnel issues. Instead of that, an approach without...

A political economy approach to explaining the existence of different human resource strategies is developed in this article – in short: a political personnel economy. The starting point is a critical analysis of the abstinence of politics and power and the resulting explanation deficiencies...

In this article, we compare the effects of ‘high performance human resource management’ (HPHR) on employee and company performance between Ireland and the Netherlands. Key hypotheses are, first, that companies using the HPHR system exhibit higher levels of employee and company performance...

This paper offers Amartya Sen’s capability approach as a framework for understanding and evaluating Human Resource Development activities in larger organizations, specifically transnational corporations (TNCs). There is a growing literature on international human resource management targeted...

Part I. The Baseline -- Chapter 1. Demographic Developments and Other Social Phenomena -- Chapter 2. Impact on the Labor Market -- Part II. Routes to Effective Human Resource Management -- Chapter 3. Demography-oriented Recruitment -- Chapter 4. Strength-based Deployment -- Chapter 5. Age and a...

Chapter 1. The world in transition -- Chapter 2. Analysis and design of a digital business performance -- Chapter 3. Eight fields of action for building digital excellence -- Chapter 4. Change management – shaping change processes successfully.