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Driven to Succeed? Teenagers' Drive, Ambition and Performance on High-Stakes Examinations
Jerrim, John - 2020
There has been much interest across the social sciences in the link between young people's socioemotional (non-cognitive) skills and their educational achievement. But much of this research has focused upon the role of the Big Five personality traits. This paper contributes new evidence by...
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Firm Training
Black, Dan; Skipper, Lars; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2023
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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A theory of expert leadership
Goodall, Amanda H. - 2012
How much knowledge should leaders have of their organization's core business? This is an important question but not one … sufficient. Expert leaders are those with (1) inherent knowledge, acquired through technical expertise combined with high ability … performance through knowledge-based strategy, by acting as a standard bearer, by creating the right environment for core workers …
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Sinking or swimming in the cluster labor pool? : a firm-specific analysis of the effect of specialized labour
Grashof, Nils - 2020
Human resources are a key factor for firm success, particularly nowadays when most industrial economies face an increasing shortage of qualified labour. With their pooled labour markets, regional clusters have been shown to be a preferable location for firms in order to satisfy their demand for...
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Entrepreneurship, firms creation and regional performance
Rico Belda, Paz; Cabrer-Borrás, Bernardí - In: European journal of management and business economics : … 28 (2019) 2, pp. 158-173
explained by business dynamics, innovation, human capital and the level of entrepreneurship in each region. Findings The results …. In addition, the stock of human capital and the promotion of innovation act as catalysts for the productive efficiency of … businesses must also be oriented towards sectors that promote technological innovation and with the objective to reach an …
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Innovation activities and firm performance : empirical evidence from transition economies
Abazi-Alili, Hyrije - In: Journal of contemporary economic and business issues 1 (2014) 2, pp. 5-18
The aim of this paper is to investigate the determinants of innovation activities and their impact on firm performance … examine the relationship between innovation activities, ownership structure and firm performance we apply instrumental … variable (IV) technique, which enables us to control for the endogeneity between innovation activities undertaken by firms and …
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Service innovation and internationalization in SMEs : implications for growth and performance
Kunttu, Anna; Torkkeli, Lasse - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 26 (2015) 2, pp. 83-100
-sized enterprises (SMEs). The literature has yielded mixed results on how innovation impacts internationalization and performance of … internationalization (DOI) among the companies. We then discuss the implications on innovation management and corporate strategy. …
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Top management quality, corporate finance, and corporate innovation
Chemmanur, Thomas J.; Simonyan, Karen - 2017
its relation to various aspects of corporate financial policies and corporate innovation, and draw policy implications for … enhancing corporate innovation. First, we discuss how management quality has been measured in the recent empirical literature … investment policies, and on corporate innovation. Third, we consider the recent empirical literature on the relationship between …
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Managerial skills, technology adaptation and firm performance : mediating role of process innovation and product innovation
Asghar, Nabila; Khattak, Amira; Danish, Muhammad Hassan; … - In: Cogent business & management 10 (2023) 3, pp. 1-18
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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None of My Business : CEO Financial Career and Corporate Innovation
Yang, Chenlin - 2020
We examine the relationship of financial expert CEO on firm innovation. Using CEO individual level and firm-level data … significant negative impact on firm innovation. A financial expert CEO causes 17.5% decrease in firm innovation level. We argue … make a separate examination about this impact on innovation that acquired from outsiders …
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