International Journal of Manpower: Volume 40 Issue 6

The relationship between intangible assets and firm productivity – still myth or is there new evidence?

Maaja Vadi, Anne Reino, Anne Aidla

Social capital levels, gossip and employee performance in aviation and shipping companies in Israel

Batia Ben-Hador

The purpose of this paper is to understand better the organizational social capital (SC) levels and their impact on organizations by focusing on personal SC and…

A knowledge-based theory of the firm: Nexus of intellectual capital, productivity and firms’ performance

Navaneethakrishnan Kengatharan

Drawing on the knowledge-based theory of the firm, the purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between each facet of intellectual capital, productivity and firms’…

The hidden value of intangibles: do CEO characteristics matter?

Lucia Garcés-Galdeano, Carmen García-Olaverri

A great deal of research has examined the relationship between a single CEO attribute and a single measure of firm performance; no attempts have been made to integrate them to…

The long-term effect of training and development investment on financial performance in Korean companies

Kibum Kwon

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between training and development investment and financial performance over time. Human capital literature suggests that…

Dimensions of organisational innovativeness and company financial performance in the biotechnology sector

Krista Jaakson, Hannele-Marianne Aljaste, Piia Uusi-Kakkuri

The relationship between organisational innovativeness (OI) and company performance has been studied extensively, and the associations found have mostly been positive. However, as…

Does the pursuit of more complex products contribute to the productivity of exporting firms?

Uku Varblane, Sven-Kristjan Bormann

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the literature on learning by exporting by investigating whether an increase in the complexity of exported products contributes to…

Age-related productivity decrease in high-waged and low-waged employees

Liis Roosaar, Jaan Masso, Urmas Varblane

The purpose of this paper is to clarify whether the age-productivity curve is different for low-waged and high-waged employees.