tampering. In contrast, quality and lean programmes actively encourage operators to acts of intervention and personal agency in …

of SMEs to accept new innovative methods that will lead to higher performance of humans and machines for increased … regression technique. The hypothesis tested found that technological change has effect on organizational performance of small and … recorded in the SMEs performance is accounted for by technological change. This result is statistically significant because the …

applications to 150 firms. The results show that the use of Google & co. may be a standard procedure in the recruiting process for …

According to the previous literature on hiring, ?rms face a trade-off when deciding on external recruiting: From an … incentive perspective, external recruiting is harmful since admission of external candidates reduces internal workers’ career … same product market, weaker ?rms use external recruiting and their wage policy to offset their competitive disadvantage. …

To hire new workers, employers use a variety of recruiting methods in addition to posting a vacancy announcement. The … intensity with which employers use these alternative methods can vary widely with a firm’s performance and with the business … cycle. In fact, persistently low recruiting intensity helps to explain the sluggish pace of US job growth following the …

show comparable effects to other recruiting channels. This study therefore outlines that there is a need to consider the …

External recruiting at least weakly improves the quality of the pool of applicants, but the incentive implications are … less clear. Using a contest model, this paper investigates the pure incentive effects of external recruiting. Our results … discouragement of low ability workers, the firm will benefit from external recruiting. If, however, the discouragement effect …