The array of incidences of corporate failure and poor performance witnessed in the economy recently cannot be unconnected to the activities in the political environment surrounding business operations. Thus, the study focuses on the influence of the political environment on firms' corporate...

Our study aims at shedding light on the organizational mechanisms that produce differences in the firms' innovation performance. We use a survey data collected from 398 Finnish manufacturing firms for the years 2002 and 2005 to empirically explore whether and which organizational factors explain...

This study uses a unique survey data from 398 Finnish manufacturing firms to explore how the order of magnitude of mobility and connectivity of a firm's ICT stock in conjunction with various organizational innovation and HRM practices affect the firm's performance. The data suggest that mobile...

We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a sample of Italian manufacturing firms. A high share of temporary - thus un-experienced - workers is associated to low innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial...

Objective – The main objective of this study is to investigate strategic reward systems that are intrinsic and extrinsic reward for employees. The rewards address four areas that consist of compensation, benefits, recognition and appreciation. This study discussed whether the reward system...

The video games industry has been subject to a number of significant transitions in its short history. The current transition, however, has the potential to restructure more fundamentally the technological, competitive and market dynamics with a growing share of revenues attributed to...

In this study we use a survey data on 398 Finnish manufacturing firms for the years 2002 and 2005 to empirically explore whether and which organizational factors explain why certain firms produce larger innovative research output than others, and whether the incentives to innovate that certain...

We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a sample of Italian manufacturing firms. A high share of temporary - thus unexperienced - workers is associated to low innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial...

This paper summarizes the findings of HRM practices over the past decade and supplements them with the results of a recent survey of 200 CEOs of domestic industrial companies and CEOs of several Russian manufacturing subsidiaries of MNCs. We identify the resilient archetype of the Russian HRM...

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is one of the most influential technologies of the twenty-first century. Today, RFID technology is being applied in a wide array of disciplines in science research and industrial projects. The significant impact of RFID is clearly visible by the rate of...