...Isabel Barbosa; Elizabeth Real de Oliveira Purpose This study aims to examine how remote and hybrid work arrangements, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, reshape organizational and employee learning in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). It addresses gaps in research that have focused mainly...

...Isabel Barbosa; Elizabeth Real de Oliveira Purpose This study aims to investigate how employees in small- and medium-enterprises (SMEs) actively initiate and sustain learning processes within disruptive and resource-constrained environments. Specifically, it explores how employee agency shapes...

...Kousay Abid; Federica Polo Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate talent development (TD) through the lens of intrapreneurship within small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the French context. Grounded in the human capital theory, the authors aim to identify challenges...

...Andrée-Anne Deschênes Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) level of participation in human resource development activities during a labor shortage. Drawing on human capital theory, it examines whether SMEs’ profiles, determined according...

...Kesseven Padachi; Soolakshna Lukea Bhiwajee Purpose Training is an important component of successful business concerns. However, although there is growing acceptance amongst scholars that small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are engines that drive economies across nations, through...

... presents four papers that explore dimensions of HRD in public sector, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and tourism organisations. It also reports on human capital development in the Mauritian economy generally. Research limitations/implications There is a paucity of knowledge...

...Steven Tam; David E Gray Purpose – The purpose of this study is to relate the practice of organisational learning in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to the organisational life cycle (OLC), contextualising the differential aspects of an integrated relationship between them. Design...