This paper investigates how firms in the UK might be encouraged to create more value through strategic innovation.Our approach is an integrative one, drawing on both the extant literature - covering the value chain, innovation andthe low skill/low quality equilibrium debate - and the two...

Improving the UK’s competitive position has become a matter ofnational importance. The DTI Review of UK Manufacturing Policy,published in July 2004, stressed the need for the UK to become ahigh value economy1. Previous studies including the Porter Reportand the DTI Innovation Report2 3 also...

ABSTRACTHistorically, there has been a myth in Corporate America which says there is a labor shortage of qualified talent, particularly among women and minorities in the high tech industry. Likewise, in 1998, the Joint Ventures Workforce Initiative Study, which analyzed the supply of skilled...

We examine the effects of diverse dimensions of hospital quality - including consumers' perceptions of unobserved attributes - on future hospital choice. We utilize consumers' stated preference weights to obtain hospital-specific estimates of perceptions about unmeasured attributes such as...

Wesley Payne McClendon explains why HR needs to simultaneously address its multiple challenges in order to contribute to making strategic decisions.

The present study examined the influences and interactive effects of organizational culture, including trust, communication, and leadership, on online knowledge sharing based on social exchange theory and theories of trust, communication, and leadership. Two-hundred-ninety-seven members in three...

The purpose of the study was to construct and test the psychometric properties of the Nurse Manager Competency Inventory (NMCI), a self-assessment tool for measuring the job competencies linked to performance and staff retention of first-line nurse managers employed in the hospital setting. The...