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Driven to Succeed? Teenagers' Drive, Ambition and Performance on High-Stakes Examinations
Jerrim, John - 2020
There has been much interest across the social sciences in the link between young people's socioemotional (non-cognitive) skills and their educational achievement. But much of this research has focused upon the role of the Big Five personality traits. This paper contributes new evidence by...
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Firm Training
Black, Dan; Skipper, Lars; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2023
Workers acquire skills through formal schooling, through training provided by governments, and through training provided by firms. This chapter reviews, synthesizes, and augments the literature on the last of these, which has languished in recent years despite the sizable contribution of firm...
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A theory of expert leadership
Goodall, Amanda H. - 2012
How much knowledge should leaders have of their organization's core business? This is an important question but not one … sufficient. Expert leaders are those with (1) inherent knowledge, acquired through technical expertise combined with high ability … performance through knowledge-based strategy, by acting as a standard bearer, by creating the right environment for core workers …
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Sinking or swimming in the cluster labor pool? : a firm-specific analysis of the effect of specialized labour
Grashof, Nils - 2020
Human resources are a key factor for firm success, particularly nowadays when most industrial economies face an increasing shortage of qualified labour. With their pooled labour markets, regional clusters have been shown to be a preferable location for firms in order to satisfy their demand for...
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Towards a new growth model in CESEE : convergence and competitiveness through smart, green and inclusive investment
Gereben, Áron; Wruuck, Patricia - 2021
a new growth model centred around a shift towards more home-grown innovation, digitalisation, climate change mitigation …
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Towards a new growth model in CESEE: Convergence and competitiveness through smart, green and inclusive investment
Gereben, Áron; Wruuck, Patricia - 2021
a new growth model centred around a shift towards more home-grown innovation, digitalisation, climate change mitigation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012438295
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Innovation activities and firm performance : empirical evidence from transition economies
Abazi-Alili, Hyrije - In: Journal of contemporary economic and business issues 1 (2014) 2, pp. 5-18
The aim of this paper is to investigate the determinants of innovation activities and their impact on firm performance … examine the relationship between innovation activities, ownership structure and firm performance we apply instrumental … variable (IV) technique, which enables us to control for the endogeneity between innovation activities undertaken by firms and …
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Service innovation and internationalization in SMEs : implications for growth and performance
Kunttu, Anna; Torkkeli, Lasse - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 26 (2015) 2, pp. 83-100
-sized enterprises (SMEs). The literature has yielded mixed results on how innovation impacts internationalization and performance of … internationalization (DOI) among the companies. We then discuss the implications on innovation management and corporate strategy. …
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Business Partners, Financing, and the Commercialization of Inventions
Astebro, Thomas B. - 2014
This paper studies the effect of business partners on the commercialization of invention-based ventures, and it assesses the relative importance of the complementary skills, contacts, and financial capital that these partners may add to the original inventor-entrepreneur. Projects run by...
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The Effect of Organizational Innovation and Information Technology on Firm Performance
Gu, Wulong - 2014
incidence of productivity improvement as well as high rates of innovation. These findings suggest that to be successful, firms …
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