...Jean Pierre Seclen-Luna; Marco Opazo-Basáez; Lorea Narvaiza; Pablo Jose Moya Fernández Purpose This paper aims to focus on the effects of human capital composition, innovation portfolio and size on manufacturing firms’ performance. Moreover, it seeks to empirically identify the levels of education...

.../approach The study uses a sample of 231 Costa Rican small and medium-size firms for 2019. The authors compute a competitiveness index that includes four pillars: innovation, strategy, markets and human capital. To estimate competitive efficiency, the authors use a non-parametric model, namely, data...

... resource endowments such as human capital or technological capabilities are better positioned to globalize as the aforementioned institutional factors evolve. Design/methodology/approach – Using a sample of 18,365 firms from 57 developing countries and multilevel modeling, the author shows...

... of this situation is that countries will be forced to endure lower standards of living for their citizens, environmental damage, and lower tax revenues (Andrews, 1994). Human capital (HC) theory is a competing field of study that explores the concept of investing in people to enhance their value and usefulness...

... environment and its motivation and ability to undertake numerous, complex, and strategic competitive actions, and therefore improve its competitive intensity. By examining how human capital and intra firm social capital influence firm competitive intensity, we advance a humanistic perspective of firm...