abstract this study aims to explore the impact of human resources investment on competitive advantage that incorporates human capital as a mediator variable. for this purpose a questionnaire was designed to collect data of the research variables. validity and reliability of measurement instruments was obtained using confirmatory factor analysis. questionnaire was then distributed among a sample...

We set up an OLG-model, where households both choose human capital investment and decide on investing their endogenous savings in a portfolio of riskless and risky assets, exposing them to (aggregate) wage and capital risks due to technological shocks. We derive the optimal public policy mix of taxation and education policy. We show that risks can be efficiently diversified between private and ...

The paper absorbed research results on social capital, technological innovation performance from domestic and foreigner. On the basis, this paper from the individual level perspective of a CTO and in charge of the CTO who is the head of technology management in an enterprise, on the relationship of the external social capital they owned with technological innovation performance. At the same tim...

Since environmental issues have caught attention of academia and practitioners during this decade, enterprises face a great deal of pressure from rivals, customers and suppliers as well in the competitive landscape. Nevertheless, once if green supply chain management (GSCM) practices are to be completely adopted by all enterprises, a demonstrable link between measures and improving competitiven...

Capital goods are embodied knowledge of how to produce. Therefore, capital development is a learning process, through which knowledge gets embodied in new capital goods. Because the necessary knowledge is dispersed among many people who must interact to communicate their particular, often tacit knowledge, capital development is a social process. Because this interaction takes time and continual...

Technological change is examined in a model of capital production to show that “creative destruction” can occur as an outcome of firm’s optimizing behavior. Capital systems are made up of components that are necessary for them to operate and that have uncertainty with respect to durability. For each type of technological change agents make a corresponding decision about whether to continue to u...

India has concertedly endeavored to upgrade the technological base of production from 1956 to the mid 1970’s. Thereafter, the process somehow appears to have slowed down resulting in technological stagnation, which extended right upto the late eighties. The nineties were an era of improvement in technology and managerial practices that bore results in the period of globalisation and liberalizat...

Human capital is the main asset of software organizations. Knowledge has to be preserved and leveraged from individuals to the organization. Thus, the learning software organization will be able to continually learn and improve. Knowledge management has various components and multiple aspects such as socio-cultural, organizational, and technological. In this paper we address the technological a...

Human capital is the main asset of many companies, whose knowledge has to be preserved and leveraged from individual to the company level, allowing continual learning and improvement. Knowledge management has various components and aspects such as socio-cultural, organizational, and technological. In this paper we address the technological aspect; more precisely we survey available software sys...