This article intends to estimate the optimal value of investment and human capital in R&D sector of Iranian economy using an augmented endogenous growth model. To do so, two issues have been studied. First, an endogenous growth model has been extended to include investment in R&D as an independent variable. In the framework of this model, in order to determine the optimal value of investment an...

This paper empirically investigates whether information technology (IT) strategies, business strategies, and divisions are aligned to meet overall business goals for Korean Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), based on structure based Strategic Alignment Model, and make comparison with those of Japanese SMEs. Using 2,869 valid responses of Korean Human Capital Corporate Panel survey, a re...

Abstract As one of the countries with largest Muslim population globally, Indonesia is trying to overcome poverty by driving community’s economy through various economic institutions, which sharia cooperatives. But unfortunately, even though majority Indonesian Muslim, cooperatives are less attractive public and have a slow performance compared conventional Various previous studies stated that ...

regarding the importance and high proportion of iranian manufacturing industries' export in nonoil export basket, and their impact on economic growth, it is essential that effective factors on the manufacturing industries' export be investigated. this paper investigates the impact of human capital on the export of iranian industries, using a panel data set of 2-digit isic manufacturing industri...

While Traditional knowledge management emphasis is more on the technology and designing information systems, modern approaches focus more on human resources and their behaviors in knowledge sharing. So this research aims to investigate the influence of social capital on knowledge sharing between human resources of Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC) by focusing on human features of knowledge sharin...

family that is the most important social institution, has attracted the attraction of scientists and sociologist. because of the importance of family and its distinguished role, some social capital analyzers and theorists have identified the family as an important source or the device of social capital. in order to achieve the purpose, democratic families, autocratic families, human capital of ...

Human capital is considered as a strategic resource among the main resources of any organization and an important factor in producing and presenting services to the society. Improving the productivity of human capital is the main cause of the improvement of productivity in organizations. Management of human capital development, focuses on the quantitative models and technics to test the product...

This study provides a descriptive analysis of human capital in different regions of Pakistan. Three different categories of human capital like rural, urban and overall are formed for the four provinces of Pakistan. The study finds visible difference in human capital situation between rural and urban areas of Pakistan. The study suggests that skills of workforce can be boosted through investment...