Under a ‘high cumulativeness’ innovation regime, robot adoption results in better job quality as workers have some negotiation power. The opposite holds for robot adoption in low-cumulativeness regimes. In the latter, robot adoption leads to more dead-end ‘Taylorist’ jobs. Our results...

Our life is built around coordinating efforts with others. This usually involves incentivizing others to do things, and sustaining our relationship with them. Using the wrong incentives backfires: it lowers effort and tarnishes our relationships. But what constitutes a ‘wrong’ incentive? And...

In order to improve our understanding of mediating variables inside the‘black box’ of the firm’s labour management, this paper examines the relationship betweenhigh-performance work system (HPWS) practices and employee attitudes. Using arandomly selected, national population sample, clear...

Individuals not only seek a happy and meaningful life, but an interesting one. In this letter, we show that past estimates of the well-being gains from entrepreneurship have overlooked an important aspect of the relationship between self-employment and well-being: boredom. Using a sample of over...

This study evaluates the efficacy of e-Government initiatives in addressing local governance challenges in Zamboanga City, Philippines. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, the research examines how digital tools have improved administrative processes and service delivery, identifies key barriers...

This study evaluates the effectiveness of the Human Resource Information System (HRIS) in enhancing administrative efficiency at Zamboanga City Local Government (ZCLG). Employing a mixed-methods approach, the research combines quantitative analysis of system usage metrics with qualitative...

Using firm-level data from Denmark, a country characterized by a high level of adoption of “high-performance work practices” (HPWPs), we document a large percentage of firms with limited adoption and large differences depending on the firms’ organizational structures. To explain these...

The most important benefit of this investigation is the identification of the best capacities and managerial practices, used by multinational companies on the global economic market, in its application as a mechanism of learning and management of personnel. This study defines the spectrum of...

The study suggests : an increase in the international division of labour according to the intra-trade scenario does not imply that nations have to negatively compete for high export quotas, rather their international interdependenee is highly beneficial for both world and domestic economic...