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Susomrith, Pattanee; Coetzer, Alan; Ampofo, Emmanuel – European Journal of Training and Development, 2019
Purpose: This paper aims to examine whether participation in training and development (T&D) events is associated with employees' affective commitment and propensity to enact innovative behaviours in small professional services firms. The study also investigates associations between both attitudes towards T&D and policy and practice…
Descriptors: Professional Services, Small Businesses, Employee Attitudes, Innovation
Shafi, Mohsin; Sarker, Md Nazirul Islam; Junrong, Liu – SAGE Open, 2019
This article aims to extend the current understanding of social networking in small creative traditional sectors in developing countries. Most of the relevant studies have tended to focus on developed countries while neglecting the developing countries perspective. However, our study stresses that small craft firms--subsector of creative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Small Businesses, Creativity, Entrepreneurship
Panagiotakopoulos, Antonios – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2020
Purpose: This study aims to explore the impact of management training on organizational performance in the small business context to evaluate whether formal management learning interventions bring organizational benefits to small enterprises. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative approach was adopted consisting of 100 interviews with small…
Descriptors: Management Development, Organizational Effectiveness, Small Businesses, Foreign Countries
Hahn, Davide; Brumana, Mara; Minola, Tommaso – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
While research on Entrepreneurial University has largely focused on the support to venture creation, its contribution to youth employment and society might be much broader. Entrepreneurial capabilities and attitudes students acquire at universities are crucial also in waged jobs, and firms need employees predisposed to act entrepreneurially to…
Descriptors: College Students, Entrepreneurship, Youth Employment, Occupational Aspiration
Mihret Dessie, Wondifraw; Shumetie Ademe, Arega – International Journal of Training and Development, 2017
Policy makers recognize the role of small businesses in bringing about economic growth and reducing or eliminating poverty, and training can contribute significantly to this process. The present study adds to the small firm literature by examining whether training encourages small firms to be more creative and innovative. It does so by…
Descriptors: Training, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Foreign Countries
Bishop, Dan – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2017
Amidst concerns over skills shortages, both the current British government and its coalition predecessors have, against the grain of wider austerity measures, invested heavily in the apprenticeship system. The majority of apprentices are, and have historically been, employed within small businesses. However, research suggests that, in the main,…
Descriptors: Engineering, Comparative Analysis, On the Job Training, Learning Processes
Messina, Judith – Center for an Urban Future, 2017
Small businesses have been sparking much of the recent job growth in New York City. However, there is a major disconnect in the city's workforce development system when it comes to working with small businesses. This report outlines a number of steps that policymakers, business leaders, and workforce providers could take to make workforce programs…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Labor Force Development, Barriers, Urban Areas
Merkel, Tammie R. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The increase in higher education enrollment provides the ability for institutions to attract and retain non-traditional students in a declining environment. However, there is little evidence concerning potential future accounting professional employers for small CPA firms specializing in accounting for small businesses perceptions in hiring online…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Academic Degrees, Accounting, Employer Attitudes
Chadwick, Clint; Way, Sean A.; Kerr, Gerry; Thacker, James W. – Personnel Psychology, 2013
Although a few published, multiindustry, firm-level, empirical studies have linked systems of high-investment or high-performance human resource management practices to enhanced small-firm performance, this stream of strategic human resource management research is underdeveloped and equivocal. Accordingly, in this study, we use a sample of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Small Businesses, Industry, Labor
Bishop, Daniel – Education & Training, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the ways in which organisational context and individual agency interact (co-participate) to shape the workplace learning of graduate trainee accountants, and to examine the role of firm size in conditioning this interaction. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative, comparative approach was…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Accounting, Work Environment, Interaction
Kim, Joowon – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation is comprised of three studies that investigate the implications and determinants of public funding for universities. The first chapter lays down the foundation for the other two studies. I discuss how state-level policies, as determined by legislators, represent a pivotal component of firms' non-market strategies that have direct…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Public Support, Innovation, Entrepreneurship
Cowdean, Stephanie; Whitby, Philip; Bradley, Laura; McGowan, Pauric – Industry and Higher Education, 2019
The aim of this research is to provide perspectives on how entrepreneurial practitioners, specifically owners of high-tech small firms (HTSFs), engage with knowledge transfer and learn. The authors draw on extant research and report on the views and observations of the principals in two case study companies in the HTSF sector with regard to…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Transfer of Training, Intervention, Teaching Methods
Alunurm, Reelika; Rõigas, Kärt; Varblane, Urmas – Industry and Higher Education, 2020
The barriers to higher education-industry cooperation (HIC) have been studied extensively. However, it is not yet clear which barriers affect which partner firms, which barriers may prevent cooperation altogether or which drivers help to overcome which specific barriers. To answer these questions, the authors conducted an original survey (a novel…
Descriptors: School Business Relationship, Colleges, Industry, Barriers
Mitchell, Jessica; Testa, Giuseppina; Sanchez Martinez, Miguel; Cunningham, Paul N.; Szkuta, Katarzyna – Research Evaluation, 2020
This article investigates the impact of tax incentives targeting young innovative firms and broader R&D tax incentives where effects on young firms are observed. It examines effects on R&D additionality, R&D wages, employment growth, turnover growth, and sales growth from innovative activities. It draws on academic literature and…
Descriptors: Tax Credits, Research and Development, Financial Policy, Foreign Countries
Bishop, Daniel – European Journal of Training and Development, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper asks how workplace learning environments change as firm size increases, and how employees respond to this. In doing so, it looks beyond an exclusive focus on formal training and incorporates more informal, work-based learning processes. Design/methodology/approach: The study uses a comparative, qualitative…
Descriptors: Organization Size (Groups), Workplace Learning, Food Service, Human Resources