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Attempts to explore empirically the link between HRM and firm performance are numerous. Yet, research on this link remains restricted to large companies. Little is known about the extent to which the existing results extend to small businesses. The purpose of the present study is to develop and...
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<Para ID="Par1">This paper examines the effect of mergers and acquisitions on employment growth in newly acquired firm … establishments in Switzerland. In fact, employment growth decreases with an establishment’s initial size and age—at the aggregate …
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This paper estimates the effect of persistence of innovation on employment in Spanish manufacturing firms during the … employment growth according to the size of the firms. The results support that process innovation shows a positive effect on … employment, especially for SMEs, while the effect of product innovation is not significant. The study also distinguishes that …
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This paper investigates the contribution of small firms to employment, job creation, and growth in developing countries …. While small firms (>20 employees) have the smallest share of aggregate employment, the small and medium enterprise sector … highest sales growth and employment growth, even after controlling for firm age. Large firms, however, have higher …
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empirical analysis, using an extensive firm-level data, suggests that the impact of business subsidies on employment growth … relate positively to the contemporary employment growth for both start-ups and incumbents. Furthermore, after subsidy … reception, the employment of both start-ups and older incumbents receiving employment or other subsidies grows more than that of …
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adjustment behavior in a crisis. We studied effects of firm size on employment growth during economic slowdowns using a rich …
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This article evaluates the effect of the Argentinean Support Program for Organizational Change on employment and wages … to support process and product innovation activities. Although employment is not usually the main objective of these … types of programs, they are always implemented assuming that they create—or at least do not destroy—employment opportunities …
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