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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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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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What role did management practices play in SME growth post-recession?

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2016

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are known to contribute significantly to aggregate economic growth. However, 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...

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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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How does outsourcing affect performance dynamics? : Evidence from the automobile industry

Novak, Sharon; Stern, Scott - 2007

This paper examines the impact of vertical integration on the dynamics of performance over the automobile product development lifecycle. Building on recent work in organizational economics and strategy, we evaluate the relationship between vertical integration and different performance margins....

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Inverted-U relationship between innovation and survival : evidence from firm-level UK data

Guidi, Francesco; Solomon, Edna Maeyen; Trushin, Eshref; … - 2015

Theoretical and empirical work on innovation and firm survival has produced varied and often conflicting findings. In … this paper, we draw on Schumpeterian models of competition and innovation and stochastic models of firm dynamics to … demonstrate that the conflicting findings may be due to linear specifications of the innovation-survival relationship. We …

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Two paths to organizational effectiveness : product advantage and life-cycle flexibility

Arnett, Dennis B.; Sandvik, Izabela L.; Sandvik, Kåre - In: Journal of business research : JBR 84 (2018), pp. 285-292

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Life cycle in organizations : a stationery shop case study

Hernández von Wobeser, Lorena - In: Journal of business case studies 12 (2016) 1, pp. 35-39

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When firms mature : keeping the ho-hum at bay and embracing change

TenBrink, Candace; Gelb, Betsy D. - In: Journal of business strategy 38 (2017) 5, pp. 12-17

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Correlation between training and education of human resources and business performance of small and medium enterprises

Klepić, Iva - In: Naše gospodarstvo : NG 67 (2021) 3, pp. 1-16

Human resources (HR) represent a crucial resource of enterprises. This especially applies to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in which HR can create a competitive advantage and affect survival and development. Changes in the business environment, the need for new knowledge, skills and...

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