... financial performance of entrepreneurial firms. Specifically, the following elements have positive effects on financial performance: knowledge of the entrepreneur, process improvement and organisational culture. On the other hand, entrepreneurs’ social skills and tenacity were found to have a negative...

...Professor Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver; Kirsi Mukkala; Timo Tohmo Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate inter-industry labor mobility, paying special attention to workers who move into high-tech (HT) sectors or knowledge-intensive business services (KIBSs). This study inquires whether...

...Peter Nielsen; Palle Rasmussen; Palle Rasmussen; Peter Nielsen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to set focus on, and discuss the concept of knowledge, and show how the interrelations between knowledge and other concepts, such as learning, have become a decisive element in managing human...

...Alan Brown; Margaret Patrickson Introduces the four papers that are included in the Focus section of International Journal of Manpower, and which were presented at the International Conference on Quality, Innovation and Knowledge held in Kuala Lumpur in 2002. These papers have...