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The impact of an innovative human resource function on firm performance: the moderating role of financing strategy
Knight-Turvey, Neal; Neal, Andrew; West, Michael A.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
The current study examined the impact of the human resource function and financing strategy on the financial performance of 104 UK manufacturing firms. Hypotheses are drawn from a resource-based perspective on human resource management and a financial theory perspective on capital structure....
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The Role of Data and Knowledge in Firms Service and Product Innovation
Koski, Heli - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2012
findings emphasize the role of a firms absorptive capacity and its ICT competence in data-based innovation. It seems that … customer involvement in innovation process positively relates to the production of new data-based products and services. The … reported empirical findings further indicate that data-based product and service innovation tends to be rather strongly demand-driven. …
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Firm Growth and Profitability:The Role of Mobile IT and Organizational Practices
Koski, Heli - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2010
mobility and connectivity of a firms ICT stock in conjunction with various organizational innovation and HRM practices affect …
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What do we know about China's CEO's?: evidence from across the whole economy
Bryson, Alex; Zhou, Minghai - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
All that we know about the CEO labour market in China comes from studies of public listed companies and state-owned enterprises (SOEs). This paper is the first to examine the operation of the CEO labour market across all sectors of the Chinese economy. We do so using World Bank enterprise data...
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Are family-friendly workplace practices a valuable firm resource?
Bloom, Nick; Kretschmer, Tobias; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
We study the determinants and consequences of family-friendly workplace practices (FFWP) using a sample of over 450 manufacturing firms in Germany, France, U.K., and U.S. We find a positive correlation between firm productivity and FFWP. This association disappears, however, once we control for...
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