This book is one of the first fully-fledged studies to examine the next world-class industrial leaders emerging from China and India; exploring the domestic and international factors that have led to their rise, and comparing their experiences with other East Asian late-comers such as Japan

The six contributions included in this special issue covering skilling and therole of the firm come from a range of disciplines, backgrounds andinternational perspectives, providing something of interest to all readers.Although each paper considers a very different aspect or takes a very...

A critical turn in human resource development This issue will comprise a number of papers relating to a series of themes on critical human resource development. The editors proposed the theme due to their concern that the debates and practice of human resource development (HRD) were being...

Der Austausch zwischen Universitäten und Wirtschaftspraxis läuft im deutschen Sprachraum nicht mit jener Intensität ab, die wünschenswert wäre. Die effizienteste Form von Wissenschaftstransfer ist der Wechsel von wissenschaftlich qualifizierten Personen in die Unternehmenspraxis. In diesem...

We use novel data on nearly 6,000 children and adolescents aged 6 to 16 that combine incentivized measures of social, time, and risk preferences with rich information on child behavior and family environment to study whether children's economic preferences predict their behavior. Results from...

This study investigates the dynamics of between-group and within-group wage inequality in a model with heterogeneous learning abilities putting a key emphasis on the shape of the ability distribution. In our model, intergenerational human capital externalities incentivize individuals to invest...