We develop and test a theory examining how frictions that restrict mobility across industries and frictions constraining mobility within an industry can co-occur to effectively isolate individual human capital, ultimately changing the firm's make-versus-buy decision for human capital....

Five decades after publication of the Correa-Tinbergen planning model for human resource development (HRD), the UNDP provided support and sponsored HRD policy making devices that aim at integrating methods based on economic accounting models with those based on international comparative...

Drawing on human capital theory, strategy scholars have emphasized firm-specific human capital as a source of sustained competitive advantage. In this study, we begin to unpack the micro-foundations of firm-specific human capital by theoretically and empirically exploring when employees perceive...

Viele Erklärungsmuster der Arbeitslosigkeit sind unbefriedigend, weil das Verhalten der Arbeitsnachfrageseite in Bezug auf ihre Motivation der Arbeitsplatzschaffung und ihrer hierarchisch- organisierten Struktur unzureichend in die Betrachtungsweise einbezogen werden, wodurch die Unternehmung...