The paper discusses the significance of firm specific knowledge and skills resources among employees, discusses strategies for measurement, and reports the results of an empirical study of learning and competence acquisition. First, the concept of firm specific competences as originally developed within neo-classical human capital theory is discussed. It is argued that the conceptualisation wit...

A key unresolved issue for systems neurobiology concerns the neural sites and mechanisms of motor skill learning. Sherrington and colleagues [1] noted nearly 100 years ago that neural mechanisms in the primary motor cortex seemingly exhibit a form of plasticity, based on observations of ‘instability’ in responses evoked by cortical stimulation. Seminal work in the following decades also suggest...

The ability to evaluate project proposals, assessing future success, and organizational value is critical to overall business performance for most enterprises. Yet, predicting project success is difficult and often unreliable. A four-year field study shows that the effectiveness of available methods for evaluating and selecting large, complex project depends on the specific project type, org...

The study describes and evaluates inter-organizational communication and relationships involving rural development management of community lands within specific perimetros florestais in Portugal. The research design is an exploratory research study approach that collected information with a mail questionnaire, interviews and information gleaned from community land association meetings and an in...

the objective of the current study is to identify the role of professional development components in developing organizational entrepreneurship in agricultural extension management of kermanshah province. the study was fulfilled by using correlation method and relational-causal model. all the agricultural extension agents in kermanshah province equal to 456 people formed the population of this ...

The demand for exact engineering within the life sciences is growing and the Engineering Biology programme at Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, prepares students for a career at this interface. Conceive – Design – Implement – Operate (CDIO) was recently pioneered in an introductory project course. Groups of six to seven students apply a LIPS scalable project model from traditional engine...

background: with regard to novel plans in the health sector, including “health sector evolution” and changes of hospitals’ issues, change and innovation skills are considered essential for hospital administrators. this study aimed to determine the relationship between management style and change and innovation skills of administrators in teaching hospitals of shiraz university of medical scienc...

quantum organizations are referred where stakeholders know how to access the infinite potential of the quantum field. viewing healthcare organizations from perspective of quantum theory suggest new approaches into management techniques for effective and efficient delivery of healthcare services. this research is aimed to determine the quantum skills, quantum leadership characteristics and funct...