Effects of Human Capital and Long–Term Human Resources Development and Utilization on Employment Growth of Small–Scale Businesses: A Causal Analysis 1

By Andreas Rauch, Michael Frese, Andreas Utsch. 2005

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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What really happens to small and medium-sized enterprises in a global economic recession? UK evidence on sales and job dynamics (2015, background): “In terms of formal human capital, there is fairly strong empirical support for the notion that businesses with more educated entrepreneurs experience faster early-stage growth (e.g. Cowling, 2002; Dimov and Shepherd, 2005; Rauch et al., 2005).”
Informal Entrepreneurship and Industry Conditions (2016, background): “Firm age: Since firm age can also impact the resources available to the firm and challenges faced in terms of establishing routines and legitimacy (Rauch et al., 2005; Watson), we control for the number of years in business.”
Born to be alive? The survival of innovative and non-innovative French micro-start-ups (2014, background): “The role of human capital is often shown as essential to the survival and enterprise development (Rauch et al. , 2005; Cressy, 1996).”
Training and Performance: The Mediating Role of Organizational Learning (2014, methodology): “We adopt the formative way for measuring training. n this way, an increase in the level of each training practice i.e., long-term orientation) does not imply an increase in he level of the other practices (i.e., team orientation) Rauch et al., 2005).”
Strategic entrepreneurship and small firm growth in Ghana (2014, background): “Entrepreneurs’ previous experience will have exposed them to opportunities to learn about entrepreneurship, and this has been found to be a consistent indicator of small firm growth (Barringer et al., 2005; Lee and Tsang, 2001; McPherson, 1996; Rauch et al., 2005).”
Entrepreneurial talent and venture performance: A meta-analytic investigation of SMEs (2013, background): “…Uncertainty avoidance index N firms N ind.** Rauch et al. (2000)* 66 1650 Germany Advanced 65 Rauch et al. (2000)* 48 1200 Germany Advanced 65 Rauch et al. (2005) 95 570 Germany Advanced 65 Raz and Gloor (2007) 71 710 Israel Advanced 81 Reuber and Fischer (1994) 43 2924 Canada Advanced…”
The internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises: the effect of family management, human capital and foreign ownership (2010, background): “While the human capital of business founders/owners has been widely studied by researchers interested in entrepreneurship and small business, the human capital of employees in SMEs has been ignored (Rauch et al. 2005).”
Entrepreneurial leadership, capabilities and firm growth (2015, background): “…teams Our knowledge of the factors influencing small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) growth has increased dramatically over the last two decades (Davidsson et al., 2006; Dobbs and Hamilton, 2007; Gibb and Davies, 1990; Moreno and Casillas, 2007, 2008; Parry, 2010; Rauch et al., 2005).”
Small firm innovation performance and employee involvement (2014, neutral): “…performance is considered using a 2 Some studies on SMEs also find a positive relationship between employees’ human capital and sophisticated HRM practices on the one hand and firm performance on the other hand (Hayton 2003; Way 2002; Maes et al. 2005; Sels et al. 2006; Rauch et al. 2005).”
Formal Development Opportunities and Withdrawal Behaviors by Employees in Small and Medium‐Sized Enterprises (2010, background): “Within the small body of existing research, some studies (e.g., Muse et al. 2005; Rauch, Frese, and Utsch 2005) have reported a positive relationship between effective HRM practices and valued outcomes.”