The Impact of Human Capital Diversity, Experience and Compensation on Firm Performance in Engineering Consulting

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  • Keld Laursen
  • Volker Mahnke
  • Erik Baark
  • David Gann
  • Aija Leiponen
چکیده

The paper investigates the relationship between human capital characteristics and firm performance in engineering consulting. Because general experience, firm-specific human capital and diversity carry specific costs and benefits we hypothesize curvilinear (taking inverted U-shapes) relations to firm performance. We find little effect of general experience and firm-specific human capital, but the findings give some support for the curvilinear relation between performance and human capital diversity.

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تاریخ انتشار 2005