This paper summarily examines the pattern of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) by Irish MNCs and more specifically investigates their approach to human capital development. In particular it investigates training and development expenditure, adoption of succession planning, use of formal...

Job rotation denotes employees' lateral transfers between jobs within the same firm (Campion et al., 1994). This study is the first that tests empirically Ortega's (2001) employer learning argument, i.e., the employer learns about the employee if the latter rotates jobs. Consistent with his...

Mergers and Acquisitions (Merger and Acquisition) seek to achieve synergy through achieving economies of scale and widening the scope of better co-ordination. It enables the firm to further penetrate into key markets and enhance the company's ability to deliver a wider range of products and...

Firms with narcissistic CEOs are more likely to experience the turnover of non-CEO executives; this effect is amplified for executives with pay closer to the CEO's pay. Stock price reactions to narcissism-induced departures are more negative the longer the non-CEO executive's tenure. If...

In this paper I propose a resource-based model of sustainable competitive advantage from human capital resources. I integrate labor-market theories of job search and matching and theories of efficiency wages with earlier resource-based contributions. I develop propositions about the conditions...

Objective: The article aims to systematise the literature on human capital for the internationalisation of SMEs. Research Design & Methods: The research adopts the quantitative and qualitative analysis of scientific papers. Quantitatively, the study is grounded on the classification approach of...

The relationship between the worker's career path and wage growth is studied using a longitudinal sample of large firms. The econometric analysis shows that promoted workers receive a positive wage premium even if they stay in the same job level. Demotions are associated with negative wage...

This study investigates the role of board capital on bank’s efficiency for a sample of 45 banks in Vietnam over 2011-2015. Using robust panel regression, we find board capital is important in making Vietnamese bank efficient even after controlling its endogeneity issue. This study further...

The coronavirus pandemic caused a sharp market decline while raising heterogeneous responses across companies related to their employees, supply chain, and repurposing of operations to provide needed products and services. We study whether during the 2020 COVID-19 induced market crash, investors...

The role of intellectual capital as a developmental factor has been constantly growing in both private and public sectors. World literature presents a variety of models for intellectual capital (IC) measurement, but so far IC in local government units such as counties (2nd tier local government...