Influence of Human Capital on Firms' and Nations' Performance : a Bi-disciplinary Literature Review

• Autorzy: Luís Mendes , António Nunes , Tiago Sequeira
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Human capital theories have been developed in the last decades. The concept has been extended to the fields of economics and management and there are now clearly different approaches between these fields. In this article we narrow the gap between these different approaches, considering the contribution of human capital to the performance of nations and firms. This an innovative bi-disciplinary study of the effects of human capital on the economic performance in the broad sense, reviewing simultaneously the literature that relates human capital to economic growth, the literature that relates human resources within the firm to firms' performance, with special focus on the quantitative predictions of different studies. From this we draw possible paths for future research in the economics and management fields. One of the most significant paths identified is the potential of using certain new variables to be collected at the macro-level that are already used at the management level.(original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Economic growth; Enterprise management; Human capital

PL

Wzrost gospodarczy; Zarządzanie przedsiębiorstwem; Kapitał ludzki

• Czasopismo: Argumenta Oeconomica
• Rocznik: 2012
• Numer: nr 2 (29)
• Strony: 5--31

Twórcy

autor

Luís Mendes

• Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

autor

António Nunes

• Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

autor

Tiago Sequeira

• Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

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