Ensuring and maintaining staff competitiveness on the national and international level, the quantification of effective ways of enhancing competitive advantages of the national economy, are crucial strategies for socio-economic development of world countries. This article investigates the...

Many small firms fail. Nevertheless, the contribution and impact that small and medium enterprises (SMEs) account for in the economy and employment in Mexico are substantial. These firms require innovation, opportunities, as well as systems management and internal spaces that allow them to...

Organizations have begun to realize how important talent management is for improving firm competitiveness. However, talent management is seen being uncommon in Islamic financial institutions. In addition, since Maqasid Shariah is the foundation upon which Islamic financial institutions are...

Zeitarbeit hat sich für die deutsche Wirtschaft zu einem wichtigen Flexibilisierungsinstrument entwickelt. Dem zunehmenden Mangel an neuen, qualifizierten Zeitarbeitnehmern kann auch in der Zeitarbeit durch die Qualifizierung bestehender Mitarbeiter begegnet werden. Auch wenn Weiterbildung oft...

Manufacturing competitiveness is imperative to enhance economic sustainability and to make meaningful contribution to the GDP of any nation. For example in 2015 while the manufacturing industry in Nigeria contributed about 9 percent to the GDP, in India, the manufacturing sector contributed...

Synergies in production are ubiquitous in shared production processes such as those involving individuals within a team, departments within a firm, or industries within a country. Using a weakest link game with ex post bargaining to redistribute the joint surplus, we study a situation in which...

This paper is one of the first to examine how the use of fixed-term employment contracts (FTCs) affects firm competitiveness (i.e. productivity, wages and profits) while controlling for key econometric issues such as time-invariant unobserved workplace characteristics, endogeneity and state...

Using manager compensation disclosure and intra-family manager cooperation measures, we create indices of family-level competitive/cooperative incentives. Families that encourage cooperation among their managers are more likely to engage in coordinated behavior (e.g., cross-trading,...

This study examines whether external labour market competitions affect managers' bad news hoarding and the resultant stock price crashes. Using CEOs' exposure to the prestigious media-award-winning events of competitor CEOs, we document a significant increase in stock crash risk for firms with...

Since the 2007-09 financial crisis, researchers have debated whether compensation plans drove excessive risk-taking or financial managers simply underestimated the risks of various investments. Through a principal-agent model with heterogeneous beliefs, we show that principals offer contracts...