In this article, we begin to explore the black box between human resources (HR) practices and firm performance. Specifically, we examine the relationships between a set of network-building HR practices, aspects of the external and internal social networks of top management teams, and firm performance. Results from a field study with 73 high-technology firms showed that the relationships between...

This paper offers new insights into the processes of firm growth by applying a reduced-form vector autoregression (VAR) model to longitudinal panel data on French manufacturing firms. We observe the co-evolution of key variables such as growth of employment, sales, and gross operating surplus, as well as growth of multifactor productivity. It seems that employment growth is negatively associate...

Firms are key drivers of urban growth along with households, yet data on businesses and commercial vehicle movements can be quite difficult to obtain. An understanding of firm behavior over time is critical in anticipating urban futures and addressing transportation, land use and other concerns. Firm birth and death, migration and location choice are defining events in a firm’s life cycle, and ...

This study aims to find out, analyze and prove empirical results regarding the effect of biological intensity on firm value with company growth as a moderator. The location this research was conducted at agricultural companies listed Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2019-2021. uses quantitative approach. sample selected using purposive sampling technique, obtained many 21 companies, 63 total observa...

As an important discipline of the learning organization, vision provides guidance about what core to preserve and what future to stimulate progress toward. It had been proved by the experiences of foreign companies’ successful practice that visionary management was an actually new managerial philosophy and tool after the corporation reengineering theory to support sustained firm growth. It shou...

Junior managers’ learning decisions and career expectations, promotion criteria, and parent firms’ growth strategies are interdependent. We study this interdependence in a two-stage game where a junior manager invests in unobservable industry-specific learning in response to the firm’s growth strategy. In the absence of a credible promotion criterion the firm is unable to insure itself fully ag...

The paper analyses dynamic investment behaviour and labour demand of the nancially restricted rm. It shows that rm development is characterised by a negative correlation between leverage and the stocks of capital and labour but a positive correlation between leverage and investment and labour hiring. The paper explains The paper explains why rm growth is decreasing with rm size and age, and why...

We describe several important features of annual firm growth rate dynamics. Specifically, we report three major findings, some of which were previously known for certain subsets of U.S. firms and are here shown to obtain for the entire universe of U.S. business firms, and others that are apparently novel. First, the distribution of log growth rates overall are well-characterized by the so-calle...