Human Resource Practices, Absorptive Capacity and Human Costs in SMEs : A Theoretical Model about the Implementation of HRP, its Benefits and Costs

Description

Absorptive capacity is fundamental for small-middle enterprises to increase their innovativeness and competitiveness in the market place. Human resources, being the most important asset in SMEs, might help firms to obtain adequate levels of absorptive capacity through a planned set of human resource practices. The hu-man costs of implementing such practices, however, cannot be neglected, and this paper studies the relationship between these different variables.

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Tags

Human Resource Practices

Absorptive Capacity

Human Costs

SMEs

Business studies

Företagsekonomi

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hj-12340
Date	January 2010
Creators	Cisamolo, Marco, Villarreal Muraira, Alain
Publisher	Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi
Source Sets	DiVA Archive at Upsalla University
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis, text
Format	application/pdf
Rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess