This paper aims to critically analyse the idea of global market space [1] and the generally accepted idea that internet and electronic transactions [2] can provide small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and bigger companies with the same access to global markets. This analysis is conducted in...

This paper attempts to give some hints for human resources management that are founded on a motivation-based economic analysis of incentives and the idea of relational capital. It is argued that cross-fertilization between traditional economic literature on incentives, experimental economics and...

La valorizzazione e sviluppo del capitale sociale, inteso come catalizzatore e patrimonio di asset intangibili per l'impresa, ha rappresentato uno dei più efficaci rimedi anti-crisi per le imprese di tutto il mondo che hanno dimostrato di saper far fronte a momenti di seria difficoltà. Sebbene...

This paper tests three possible explanations for why firms adopt job rotation: employee learning (rotation makes employees more versatile), employer learning (through rotation, employers learn more about individual workers' strengths), and employee motivation (rotation mitigates boredom)....

We develop methods and employ similar sample restrictions to analyse differences in intergenerational earnings mobility across the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. We examine earnings mobility among pairs of fathers and sons as well as fathers and daughters...

Variable pay creates a link between pay and performance but may also help firms in attracting more productive employees. Our experiment investigates the impact of performance pay on both incentives and sorting and analyzes the influence of repeated interactions between firms and employees on...

We test predictions from theories of tournament, fairness and tastes for skewness <p> about the effects of pay spread and skewness on employee effort and firm <p> productivity. The data come from the population of 6,501 medium-to-large sized <p> Danish private sector firms matched with all their...</p></p></p>

The aim of this paper is to test three theories for why firms introduce job rotation schemes: <p> employee learning, employer learning, and employee motivation. The earlier literature has made <p> use of either information about establishment characteristics or data coming from personnel <p> records of a...</p></p></p>

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