Education and training can enhance small business owner/managers' managerial skills and is known to be effective in reducing small business failure. Training plays an important role in the competitive success of firms as people who acquire appropriate skills are more productive based on output...

Purpose: Despite the rapid pace of digitalization, aggregate productivity growth rates in most advanced countries have slowed down consistently in recent years. It creates a “puzzle”, as investment in information technology (IT) has often been thought of as a remedy to solve productivity...

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to enhance understanding of the relationships among team emotional intelligence (EI), trust in team, conflict in team and team performance. Design/methodology/approach: A sample of 389 team members from 84 project teams in large-scale construction projects...

Whether HRM is perceived to be a ‘problem’ for smaller firms is explored in this paper usinglogistic regression. We analyse data from 523 responses to a survey of smaller firms in southeastMelbourne (Victoria, Australia), and consider the antecedents of a range of issues ofconcern reported...

In this paper we report a study of 10 Polish immigrant entrepreneurs operating inLeicester, UK. Like Ram, Theodorakopoulos and Jones (2008) we take a forms-ofcapitalapproach but use Bourdieu’s (1983) social, cultural and economic capitals asthe lens through which to explore their pathways to...