The paper explores the impact of external and internal organizational changes on competence development needs of managers in Pakistan. The study examines internal and external developments in the business environment. It provides a detailed analysis of the impact of these change drivers on...

This work attempts to shed light on the “information technology productivity paradox”. Employing a large data set of Italian manufacturing firms we compute ICT marginal productivity across different cluster of firms and the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on output...

We develop a new methodology to identify high-end variety exporters in French firm-level data. We show that they do not export to many more countries, but they export to more distant ones. This comes with a greater geographic diversification of their aggregate exports. These facts are explained...

HRD is an important topic of present time. It is considered by management professionals, as sub discipline of HRM, but many researchers have, broadened the scope and integrated the concept of HRD by looking it from socioeconomic angle and giving it other dimension such as physical, intellectual,...

This research paper is a comparison between Pakistan Textile Industry and its neighboring countries in the very sector. This justifies Pakistans current place with her neighbors in Textile Industry particularly after lifting of trade restrictions from WTO and MFA. This study will help in...

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) are globally considered as distinctly effective way to make living standard of the people better. The purpose of conducting this research study is to investigate the growth prospects of microfinance programs in Pakistan to eradicate poverty. The microfinance...

By 2009, Betazeta Networks already was the second largest independent Internet community in Latin America and also at the cutting edge of the Web 2.0 movement in the region. For its founders, Betazeta represented the culmination of more than 25 years of combined experience in the industry. The...

This paper is a reflective survey of past and recent econometric work on the growth of firms. Most of this work suggests that firm size follows a random walk; i.e. that corporate growth rates are random. The survey documents this, and shows what a strong result this is by contrasting it with...

Whereas the structuring and growth of the firm have long been central to conceptual development in strategy research, the literature has largely ignored how a fundamental practice such as recruitment can be of strategic importance for the sustenance of the firm’s growth. The present study...

Given the decline in growth momentum in the manufacturing sector in many OECD countries, the role of knowledge-based capital has emerged as a key driver for sustained growth. While empirical studies on estimating knowledge spillovers have usually been undertaken at the country level, the...