scholarly journals Human Capital and Multifaceted Innovation: Evidence from the Lahore Knitwear Cluster in Pakistan

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-68
Author(s):  
Fahd Rehman
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Marketing Channels ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Operational Experience ◽  
Strongly Correlated ◽  
Cluster Development ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Specific Human Capital ◽  
General Human Capital

Clusters have the potential to grow, but their potential in Pakistan is rarely analyzed and examined. This study examines the knitwear cluster of Lahore in general and the performance of enterprises in particular. Most of the literature on clusters in Pakistan has not looked at the characteristics of the individual enterprises that play a pivotal role in cluster development. Using primary data collected from 59 finished-knitwear producers in Lahore, this study assesses the role of human capital in acquiring multifaceted innovations. We find that general human capital acquired by schooling and specific human capital acquired through operational experience is associated with the size of the enterprise. Additionally, specific human capital acquired through operational and marketing experience is strongly correlated with improved marketing channels.

scholarly journals Catalytic Agent for Strategic Innovation Ambidexterity: The Role of Human Capital

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Faizah Mashahadi ◽  
Noor Hazlina Ahmad ◽  
Osman Mohamad ◽  
Mohd Ghazali Mohayidin ◽  
Razmah Mahmud ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Dynamic Capability ◽  
Innovation Capability ◽  
Strategic Innovation ◽  
Pls Analysis ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Specific Human Capital ◽  
General Human Capital

Developing exploitation and exploration innovation capability is enormously critical for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to attain comprehensive endurance in borderless business battlefield. To better understand the extent to which SMEs realize strategic innovation ambidexterity, this study develops a theoretical framework that associates human capital to strategic innovation ambidexterity. Grounded by the Theory of Dynamic Capability, this present study examines the effects of the subsequent predecessor in predicting technological and non-technological innovation ambidexterity among SMEs operating internationally specifically; general human capital and specific human capital. Data were collected via self-administered questionnaires from herbal-based SMEs who participated in this study. A quantitative approach was adopted, and hypotheses were tested using Partial Least Squares (PLS) analysis. Findings showed that general and specific human capital positively influenced the development of strategic technological and non-technological ambidexterity. This study provides evidence on the pivotal role of human capital in SMEs located in a developing country.

Education

2019 ◽  
pp. 284-295
Author(s):  
Orlando Pereira ◽  
Daniel Gonçalves Novo Gomes ◽  
Ana Martins ◽  
Isabel Martins
Keyword(s):  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Economic Model ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Negative Externalities ◽  
School Practices ◽  
Social Balance ◽  
The Individual

This chapter discusses the role of education in “humanizing the economy” and emphasizes its contribution to the development of a new socio-economic model that helps to overcome the irregularities present in contemporary society. It proposes the implementation of school practices aimed at the completeness of the individual and in favor of social balance. It also emphasizes the importance of the humanizing process in the attainment of values such as, justice, freedom, solidarity and cooperation, which are structuring values of social cohesion. The primary data focused on the Secondary Education in the Districts of Braga and Viana do Castelo, in the northwest of Portugal. Interviews were conducted with school principals as main actors in the research. In spite of the limitations of the work, the results show that, in Portugal, education is still focused on individualism. It is also noted that assimilation of social aspects and humanization is weak, which inhibits placing the individual at the center of economic concerns and produces negative externalities on economic and social performance including wellbeing.

Role of Consumer Knowledge in Developing Purchase Intentions and Driving Services Efficiency across Marketing Channels in Mexico

2016 ◽  
pp. 204-226
Author(s):  
Rajagopal
Keyword(s):  
Purchase Intentions ◽  
Marketing Channels ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Value Propositions ◽  
High Level

This study is carried out in Mexico with an objective to analyse empirically the role of education in a transforming services marketing strategies of the firms. The study is carried on in Mexico through pragmatic investigation among the consumers subscribing to the communication and entertainment services. The analysis of primary data is developed around the theory of action that demonstrates the skills and confidence of individuals or groups towards making decision in acquiring or hiring services to improve their quality of life. The results of the study reveal that knowledge acquired on the services and value perceived by the consumers play key role in determining the intentions to purchases services. This study meticulously rows several arguments on how consumers with high level of education scrutinize the benefits offered by the firms marketing their communication and entertainment services, and build their value propositions on the services bought or contracted.

Human capital and export performance in the Spanish manufacturing firms

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
José López Rodríguez ◽  
Bill Serrano Orellana
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Export Performance ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Export Intensity ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Specific Human Capital ◽  
General Human Capital

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of firms’ general and specific human capital on the export propensity and intensity. Design/methodology/approach The resource-based view of the firm provides the theoretical background to examine export performance. Empirical analysis is carried out using a national representative sample of Spanish manufacturing firms and employing Logit and Tobit models. Export performance is evaluated in a dual way, as export propensity and export intensity. In relation to human capital a distinction is made between general and specific human capital. Findings The results shown that differences exist in the effect of general and specific human capital. While the firms’ general human capital (education of the firm’s employees) affects both export propensity and intensity, only some dimensions of specific human capital (employees’ experience at the workplace) affects export propensity and intensity but no the employees’ training. Moreover, the firms’ general human capital generates greater changes than the effect of specific human capital on the export behavior. Originality/value This paper extends a line of research underexplored in the literature by analyzing the effect of organizational human capital on the firm’s export performance; moreover, it is the first study for Spanish manufacturing firms; the distinction between general and specific human capital enhances our comprehension of the human capital as a determinant of export performance. In relation to the specific human capital, besides training, we add a new variable related to experience at the workplace.

scholarly journals Examination of the Effect of Transaction Costs in the Hungarian Beef Sector

2004 ◽  
pp. 212-223
Author(s):  
Krisztina Bárdos
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Transaction Cost Economics ◽  
Multinomial Logit Model ◽  
Chain Structure ◽  
Marketing Channels ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Choice Situation ◽  
Beef Sector

technical and economic characteristics, which give rise to high levels of uncertainty and greater control in the supply chain. In order to investigate the role of different transaction costs in marketing behavior, we carried out research in the central region of Hungary among beef retailers and wholesalers. This research is based on primary data collection and examines the motivation of choices in the beef sector on distinction among different marketing channels and the role of transaction costs in procurement. Since this case can be regarded as a qualitative choice situation the hypothesis that transaction cost’s variables are significant is judged by the application of multinomial logit model in order come up with the variables that can influence the supply chain structure and the choice of different marketing channels. This analysis enabled us to explore the structure in data and confirm or reject the expected interrelations of causative variables. Our1 A szerző témavezetője Dr. Fertő Imre.2 A kutatás az OTKA F038082 sz. „Vertikális koordinációs és integrációs modellek az élelmiszer-gazdaságban” c. programja keretében valósult meg.3 A szerző köszöni Dr. Fertő Imrének és Dr. Szabó G. Gábornak, a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Közgazdaságtudományi Kutatóközpont tudományos főmunkatársainak a kutatás során nyújtott nagy értékű segítséget. results partly support and contradict the basic predictions of transaction cost economics.

scholarly journals Determinants of Micro-Enterprise Success through Microfinance Institutions: A Capital Mix and Previous Work Experience

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 803-823
Author(s):  
Waseem Ul Hameed ◽  
Hisham Bin Mohammad ◽  
Hanita Binti Kadir Shahar
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Financial Capital ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Capital Social ◽  
Microfinance Institutions ◽  
Enterprise Success

The prime objective of the study is to highlight the role of the capital mix (financial capital, social capital, human capital) on women micro-enterprise success with moderating role of previous work experience. Women owned micro-enterprise success is less as compared to the male owned micro-enterprsie, particularly in Pakistan. Rate of faliure in women micro-enterpeise is more, that is the reason women community is one of the most vulnerable group worldwide. It is evident from literature that less attention has been paid to highlight the importance of three types of capital for women micro-enterprise. To adress this issue, the current study adopted quantitative research approach and based on cross-sectional research design. Primary data was collected by using 5-point Likert scale. Questionnaires were distributed among the owners of women micro-enterprise in Pakistan by using area cluster sampling. SmartPLS 3 was used to analyze the data. It is found that financial capital, social capital and human capital has significant positive relationship with women micro-enterprise success and previous work experience moderates the relationship. Hence, this study contributed by developing a unique framework for women micro-enterprise success. It will be beneficial for practitioners to enhance women micro-enterprise success rate.

Creating Intellectual Capital: A Role of Human Capital

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajesh K. Jain ◽  
Santosh Rangnekar ◽  
D.P. Agrawal
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Present State ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Literature Survey ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
The World ◽  
Group Relationships ◽  
State Of Art

As more-and-more businesses are evolving with intellectual capital as their main assets generating value for them the world over, it has become imperative to understand what our organizations are doing to manage this. The research is largely based on primary data collected from different organizations across the country. Exhaustive literature survey was undertaken to study the present state of art related to intellectual capital creation. The objectives of the research are, to understand the constructs of intellectual capital creation and to identify important items underlying the same. Key employees leaving the organizations, thinking before taking actions, inter-group relationships, succession training programme, and preparedness for the consequences of the actions are some of the important constructs grouped as human capital are forming the important part of the intellectual capital creation.

Origins

2020 ◽  
pp. 11-30
Author(s):  
Phillip Brown
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Wealth Creation ◽  
Capital Theory ◽  
Ibn Khaldun ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Human Labor ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual

This chapter discusses the history of human capital theory. Before the mid-twentieth century the idea of human capital had a checkered history. Ideas linking the role of human labor to wealth creation can be traced to the works of Aristotle, Ibn Khaldun, and Thomas Aquinas. The chapter examines the ideas posed by notable economic theorists and thinkers such as Adam Smith, Alfred Marshall, Theodore Schultz, and Gary Becker. It shows how the ideas developed by these thinkers extended to a wide range of issues concerning the relationship between education and the labor market. In turn, they were able to influence policy in such powerful ways that their legacy remains. Above all, their influence shaped the way education is viewed in many countries: as an investment in the economic fortunes of the individual and the nation. This view gradually emerged as the dominant one, but was triumphantly sealed by the advent of neoliberalism in the 1980s.

Work-based learning

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Garnett
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Operational Experience ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Individual Knowledge ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how transdisciplinarity is woven into the key curriculum components of individually negotiated work-based learning (WBL) programmes and to focus upon the performative value of knowledge in the work context. Design/methodology/approach – This paper draws upon WBL academic literature and the authors 22 years operational experience of WBL. Findings – The paper suggests that while university-level WBL can enhance the performance of organizations and individuals it is also inherently challenging and challenged by the hegemony of subject disciplines and disciplinary-based university structures. WBL is concerned with knowledge which is often unsystematic, socially constructed and is action focused in order to achieve outcomes of significance to work. This contests the supremacy of the role of the university in curriculum design, delivery and validation of knowledge and means that work-based knowledge is often seen as transdisciplinary rather than conforming to traditional subject disciplines (Boud and Solomon, 2001). Research limitations/implications – Central to the distinctive nature of university WBL programmes is the role of the external organization as a partner with the university and the individual learner in the planning of learning activities which are intended to have significance for the workplace. For individual knowledge to become organizational knowledge, and thus fully contribute to the intellectual capital of the organization, it must be shared and accepted by others. It follows that a key concern for organizations must be the facilitation of the recognition of knowledge and this goes beyond using a transdisciplinary lens when guiding and assessing the work of individual higher education students. Practical implications – The paper has practical implications for the design and facilitation of WBL programmes at higher education level. Originality/value – Provides an informed and sustained examination of the concept of WBL and knowledge.

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