The success of the organization is based on the quality of human resources, their competencies, motivation, loyalty, and their business results. The basic aim of this research is to determine whether and to what extent human resources competency management influences the business success of...

Im Zentrum des Hans Jobst Pleitner gewidmeten Bandes stehen die Klein- und Mittelunternehmen. Über fünfzig Beiträge von Kollegen, Partnern in weltweiten Netzwerken und ehemaligen Doktoranden fügen sich zu einem eigentlichen "State-of-the Art"-Werk für den Bereich der KMU zusammen. -- Im...

The effective utilization and management on intangibilities, mainly on the firm's human resources, have proven to play a crucial role in ensuring firm's viability. Knowledge-based firms, which are mostly dominated by information technology firms, including other firms that put forth intellectual...

The Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are considered as the key contributors in developing countries and plays a significant role in the overall economy in terms of contribution to overall economic development and creation of employment opportunities. The paper will primarily focus on...

The research was carried out to gauge the human resource and supply chain management practices, implemented and followed, in the SME sector of Pakistan. SME sector is now in the limelight and Government of Pakistan has taken some serious steps towards the development of this sector. SME policy...

The primary goal of this study is to elaborate and test of how commitment-based HR practices affect the innovative capacity of firms. While a remarkable wealth of knowledge has been accumulated on what accounts for small firm innovation including various internal and external factors, a void...

Aim/purpose - In this paper, we explore the contribution of Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS) to innovation in SMEs. We consider two HRMS with different orientations: Commitment HRMS (focusing on long-term career development to increase employees' creativity) and Collaboration HRMS...

There are not many studies that examine business continuity and business strategy combined with business people's psychological and psychological approaches. This study relates the elaboration between the HRM, strategic management, and business management fields analyzed with a quantitative...