Firms generate new knowledge that leads to innovations by recombining existing knowledge sources. A successful recombination depends on both the availability of a knowledge stock (human capital pool) that contains innovation-relevant knowledge and the regulation of the knowledge flow through the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how service firms determine foreign subsidiary staffing, emphasizing the joint effect of an attribute specific to the service sector and the institutional environment of the host countries. Design/methodology/approach – This study develops...

Purpose – The transmission of tacit knowledge is crucial to organizations to ensure that individual expertise will be passed throughout a team or department, rather than centred in one employee. It is especially important among information technology (IT) professionals because, in addition to...

Purpose – Intense competitive environments demand the combination of quality and innovation. The potential of human resource management practices within the total quality framework for promoting innovation is under debate, particularly in relation to radical innovation. The purpose of this...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the French reform of employees’ access to lifelong learning by addressing the issue of the relationship between corporate training policy and employees’ capability to aspire for learning. Design/methodology/approach – The investigation is...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse how company policies and strategies affect career development opportunities. Design/methodology/approach – A longitudinal approach is used, combining quantitative and qualitative data. Panel quantitative data have been used to classify...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide a brief overview of the global financial crisis (GFC), highlighting its most frightening dimensions, the policy responses and issues around the management of labour during and post-GFC. Further, this paper introduces the five research papers that encompass...

The main aim of this paper is to emphasise the most important characteristics of the human resource management in the educational units from South-Muntenia and South-West Oltenia regions. The results have been established on the basis of the results obtained within an empiric study carried out...

Human resources are already acknowledged for the contribution towards sustained competitive advantage, especially in today’s rapidly changing environment (Barney, 1991), that’s why Human Resources Management (HRM) practices should be based on techniques able to identify and use the personnel...

Contingency formulations of Human Resource Management (HRM) theory suggest that the effectiveness of HRM practices should vary across firms. This study examined whether the relationship between HRM practices and productivity in manufacturing companies is contingent upon organizational climate...