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This paper analyzes how apprenticeship training, i.e., work-based secondary education, affects personality traits compared to full-time school-based vocational or general education. Employing an instrumental variable approach that exploits the regional differences in the relative weight of...
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This paper analyzes how apprenticeship training, i.e., work-based secondary education, affects personality traits compared to full-time school-based vocational or general education. Employing an instrumental variable approach that exploits the regional differences in the relative weight of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014149009
Workers acquire skills through formal schooling, through training provided by governments, and through training provided by firms. This chapter reviews, synthesizes, and augments the literature on the last of these, which has languished in recent years despite the sizable contribution of firm...
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Firms strategically promote, foster and pursue a reputation for technological innovation. Yet, present research did not … performance to examine the influences on reputation for technological innovation. Using patent, financial and consumer data our … (citation intensity) is linked to reputation for technological innovation. Counter-intuitively, our results provide evidence …
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innovation and product innovation using the PLS-SEM technique. The data for this study is collected from 150 managers of … adaptation are positively and significantly related to process and product innovation. Indirect and total effects show that … managers' skills, technology adaptation, process innovation, and product innovation are positively and significantly related to …
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We open the black box of corporate innovation production by examining its most important input: the employees tasked …
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Small Manufacturing Enterprises (SMEs) in an overpopulated developing economy serve the dual role of job-creation and … grounds of low productivity and economic viability. Sustainability of SMEs is argued to depend on improving labour … SMEs rely on indigenous resources, adaptive technology, 'on-job' skill acquisition, and, go on experimenting till they …
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