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Technology adoption and skills : a pilot study of Kent SMEs
Robinson, Catherine; Siegel, Christian; Liao, Sisi - 2021
Does the successful deployment of digital technologies require complementary investment in skills? We conducted a pilot survey to investigate. The survey elicited information on whether the firm was adopting one of the three digital technologies of interest (AI, robotics, big data), provided...
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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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The effectiveness of general and firm-specific training on wages and performance : evidence from banking
Jones, Derek C.; Kalim, Panu; Kauhanen, Antti - 2009
By using new panel data for Finnish banks we study the impact of training on wages and performance. To the best of our knowledge, ours is the first paper to compare explicitly the effects of general and firm-specific workplace training on outcomes for both employees and firms. Unlike much...
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Does State Ownership Really Matter? The Dynamic Alignment of China’s Resource Environment and Firm Internationalization Strategies
Ren, Monica - 2019
Recent research suggests that unequal access to home country institutional resources affects firm internationalization strategies. We add to this debate, based on an analysis of state-owned (SOEs) and non-state-owned (NSOEs) Chinese mining firms, by developing a more dynamic and multi-layered...
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The Ambivalent Effect of Complexity on Firm Performance : A Study in the Global Service Provider Industry
Larsen, Marcus M. - 2018
Prior literature is ambivalent about whether organizational complexity has positive or negative effects on firm performance. Using rich data on global service providers, we explore this ambivalence by disentangling performance consequences of different types of organizational complexity. We show...
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The economic implications of training for firm performance
Martins, Pedro S. - 2022
This paper surveys the emerging economics literature on the relationship between employee training and firm performance. Most studies find very high returns to training, at least from the perspective of firms, indicating that the costs of training can be recouped in short periods of time. These...
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Employee training and firm performance: evidence from ESF grant applications
Martins, Pedro S. - 2021
As work changes more quickly, firm-provided training may become more relevant. However, there is little causal evidence about the effects of training on firms. This paper studies a large training grants programme in Portugal, supported by the European Social Fund, contrasting firms that received...
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Employee training and firm performance : quasi-experimental evidence from the European Social Fund
Martins, Pedro S. - 2020
As work changes, firm-provided training may become more relevant for good economic and social outcomes. However, so far there is little or no causal evidence about the effects of training on firms. This paper studies a large training grants programme in Portugal, contrasting successful firms...
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Should I train or should I go? : human resources, human capital, turnover and service quality
Georgiadis, Andreas; Kornelakis, Andreas - 2024
Extant literature documents a relationship between human resource management (HRM) practices and performance, but the mechanisms underlying this relationship are still not well understood. We develop a theoretical framework of the HRM-performance relationship fusing an employment systems...
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What role did management practices play in SME growth post-recession?
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2016
, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth since recession. We contribute to the literature … on SME growth by analysing longitudinal administrative data on firms' employment and turnover, taken from the UK … turnover, and a decline in closure probabilities, over the period 2011-2014. The findings suggest SME investment in off …
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