Task-Specific Human Capital

By Robert Gibbons, Michael Waldman. 2004

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Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance: Evidence from Indian Software Services (2012, unknown): “Our concept is similar to the idea of task-specific human capital (Gibbons and Waldman 2004; Gibbons and Waldman 2006).”
Did the global financial crisis impact firms' innovation performance? The role of internal and external knowledge capabilities in high and low tech industries (2018, unknown): “In particular, highly task specific (skills) human capital is required to integrate external knowledge with a high degree of tacitness associated with highly sophisticated, complex technological processes (Gibbons and Waldman, 2004).”
Capturing value from alliance portfolio diversity: The mediating role of R&D human capital in high and low tech industries (2017, background): “Particularly, high task specific human capital is required to assimilate external knowledge with high degree of tacitness associated with highly sophisticated, complex technological processes (Gibbons and Waldman, 2004).”
Employee training needs and perceived value of training in the Pearl River Delta of China: A human capital development approach (2008, background): “Conventionally, three kinds of human capital are distinguished: generic (general) human capital, firm-specific human capital, task-specific human capital ( Gibbons and Waldman, 2004”
Corporate Governance and Value Creation: Evidence from Private Equity (2010, unknown): “We follow the simple, but plausible idea of Gibbons and Waldman (2004) that mainly task-specific learning-by-doing leads to an”
Theory and evidence in internal labor markets (2007, background): “This is found in Medoff and Abraham’s work and in Gibbs (1995). As discussed in more detail later, this finding suggests that at least some of the negative relationship found in cross-sectional analyses is due to the sorting of workers across jobs and firms over time due to promotions and exits as w”
Shaped by Booms and Busts: How the Economy Impacts CEO Careers and Management Styles (2017, unknown): “One can think of this channel in the context of the model of Gibbons and Waldman (2006), which considers task-specific human capital.”
Management and Shocks to Worker Productivity (2019, unknown): “This process of managing task assignments is likely to play a critical role in the success or failure of the firm (Gibbons and Waldman, 2004; Holmstrom and Tirole, 1989; Kremer, 1993).”
Learning by Drilling: Inter-Firm Learning and Relationship Persistence in the Texas Oilpatch (2007, unknown): “Becker (1964), Prendergast (1993), and Gibbons and Waldman (2004, 2006) discuss the implications of job-specific learning for equilibrium wage and promotion paths, explaining why, for example, wages increase with age at a decreasing rate.1 These theories could in principle be translated to the…”