Interdependence between employee education and R and D investment in impacting it firm performance

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Banker, Rajiv ^a   Wattal, Sunil ^a   Liu, Fang Chun ^a   Ou, Chin Shyh ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Chun Chen University   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATED WORKFORCES; EMPLOYEE EDUCATIONS; FIRM PERFORMANCE; HIGHLY SKILLED EMPLOYEES; HUMAN CAPITALS; INTERACTION EFFECTS; IT FIRMS; IT INDUSTRIES; LITTLE RESEARCHES; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

EDUCATION; INVESTMENTS; PERSONNEL; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 78650760397     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.270     Document Type: Conference Paper

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