Task-specific Human Capital and Organizational Inertia
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- Josse Delfgaauw & Otto H. Swank, 2016. "Task‐Specific Human Capital and Organizational Inertia," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 25(3), pages 608-626, September.
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Keywords
Task-specific human capital; organizational inertia; time-inconsistency; exploration; exploitation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- D92 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Intertemporal Firm Choice, Investment, Capacity, and Financing
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2015-04-25 (Business Economics)
- NEP-HRM-2015-04-25 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-MIC-2015-04-25 (Microeconomics)
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