Measuring Human Capital in Small and Medium Manufacturing Enterprises: What Matters?

Mubarik, Muhammad Shujaat; Chandran, V.G.R.; Devadason, Evelyn S.

doi:10.1007/s11205-017-1601-9

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“…We computed the mean values of each dimension and sub-dimension of EES by multiplying the percentage of respondents by the value of their responses (which are 1, 2, and 3, respectively, for "important," "somewhat important," and "not important"). For the selection of the relevant dimensions, among the identified, we adopted the procedure previously followed by Mubarik et al (2018). It uses an average of maximum mean value and minimum value as the cut-off point for selection.…”

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“…It shows the degree to which an entrepreneur can have access to formal or informal funds to start a venture. These fund providers can be angel investors, private equity funds, commercial banks, microfinance institutions, NGOs, or governmental institutions like the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA) in Pakistan (Mubarik, Chandran, & Devadason, 2018;Naghavi & Mubarak, 2019). In short, these creditors are the major constituents of the financial assistance structure of an EES.…”

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“…Since identified factors were too numerous to be processed for AHP analysis, we picked the relevant dimensions/sub-dimensions with the help of a survey. A 3-point Likert scale questionnaire, with responses ranging from 1 to 3 (where 1 denotes not important, 2 somewhat important, and 3 very important), was used for this survey following the procedure adopted by (Mubarik et al, 2018). The questionnaire consisted of two parts; part 1 of the questionnaire contained demographic questions, and part 2 2007Capital structure Isenberg (2010); Cohen (2006) Collaboration among the industries Rahatullah (2013) Commercial banks Isenberg (2010) Communities from local area Mokry (1988) Communities individual Kao (1993) Consultant contained 63 questions related to EES.…”

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The objective of this study is to prioritize the various dimensions of an entrepreneurial ecosystem (EES) and propose a framework for developing it. The study adopted a threefold approach to meet the objective. First, we extracted 63 dimensions of the entrepreneurial ecosystem through a comprehensive literature review. Second, the extracted dimensions were then shortlisted by focusing on the importance of each in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Thirty-one selected dimensions were grouped in eight core dimensions, namely markets, finance, human resource development, support, government role, infrastructure, industrial network relationship, and mentorship. Third, the study applied the analytical hierarchy process to prioritize the selected dimensions and sub-dimensions of EES. Data was collected from experts using a bi-polar questionnaire. Results of pairwise comparisons reveal that human resource development possessed the highest weight, followed by finance, support, and industrial relationship. Markets emerged as the least important dimension. The proposed EES provides a basic framework that can be replicated in a specific area to identify the industry-related EES framework.

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“…We used expert sampling, which is a purposive sampling technique, to select the participants as the target of study (Mubarik, Chandran, & Devadason, ). In expert sampling, researchers use own expertise to select qualified individuals with certain definitive experiences and expertise that satisfy requirement and are relevant to the research objective.…”

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The indicators of human capital for hospital‐based nursing workforce in Taiwan

Fei

Chen²,

Chien³

2020

J Nurs Manag

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Aim:To develop a hospital-based nursing human capital model for Taiwan.Background: Effective nursing management only becomes possible when nurse managers are able to manage and maintain the right equilibrium among human capital components. Method:We developed an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) model with 8 dimensions and 31 indicators based on extensive literature review and experts' perceptual assessment. We used expert and purposive sampling and invited 82 nursing professionals to rate the importance of these dimensions and indicators. The AHP process was performed to identify the weightage and prioritize the dimensions and indicators of the nursing human capital.Results: Our analysis showed that, for nursing human capital, health was the most important factor (weight: 34.8%), followed by employee protection (20.4%), work attitude (13.7%), employee stability (10.8%), general nursing training (6.3%), competencies (5.8%), advanced nursing training (4.3%) and clinical nursing experience (3.9%). Conclusion and Implication for Nursing Management:The model would be most useful for nurse administrators in long-range strategic management. Specifically, the model can be used as a reference to form a rating system to analyse nursing human capital. Health promotion programs and employee protection measures targeting nurses could improve nursing human capital in hospitals. K E Y W O R D Sanalytic hierarchy process, human capital, nursing, nursing management, Taiwan

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“…Of course, investing in people with the purpose of expanding the range of using their creative abilities and increasing the number of highly qualified specialists in production involves, like any investment activity, high risks, which include: the uncertainty of future incomes due to changes in the economic and political situation in the country; risks of disability due to injury or illness; change of place of work and/or residence, etc. (Shelest, 2015;Benzoni & Chyruk, 2015;Mubarik, Chandran, & Devadason, 2018). However, the development of productive forces and production relations leads to the complication of the system of connections and interactions in the economic space, its structure and composition, which permanently leads to the growth of its internal potential entropy.…”

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The Human Capital Investment In The Modernization Of The Real Economy Sector

Shmanev¹,

Shmaneva²

2019

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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In modern conditions of reforming the economy, the issue of effective investment in human capital becomes highly relevant. Therefore, despite the complexity of evaluating the effectiveness of such investments, it is difficult to overestimate the benefits of such costs, since they provide an opportunity to prepare highly qualified personnel capable of exercising high-quality production management, to introduce innovative technologies into technological chains, and therefore ensure the competitiveness of domestic products. So that the performance does not raise doubts, and the costs turn into high profits, new approaches are needed that correspond to modern realities. Economic science, by analogy with the natural science knowledge, is currently following the path of integrating various theories, which serves as a new impetus for its development and complication. Investment processes are part of an open, self-developing and self-organizing economic system, characterized by elements of disequilibrium, instability, irreversibility with many non-linear positive and negative feedbacks. What is successfully studied by such science as synergy. At the same time, universal interdisciplinary approaches do not fully offer a solution to complex economic problems, since many factors are imposed that form the specific conditions for their functioning. In this regard, consideration of institutional manifestations is mandatory. We propose to apply a synergetic-institutional approach, which allows to model the processes of investment in human capital and to predict the results of its further use in the modernization of production and/or restructuring of the real sector of the economy, taking into account possible institutional constraints.

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Measuring Human Capital in Small and Medium Manufacturing Enterprises: What Matters?

Cited by 90 publications

References 48 publications

Prioritizing dimensions of entrepreneurial ecosystem: a proposed framework

Prioritizing dimensions of entrepreneurial ecosystem: a proposed framework

The indicators of human capital for hospital‐based nursing workforce in Taiwan

The Human Capital Investment In The Modernization Of The Real Economy Sector

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