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Tuzovic, Sven, Jochen Wirtz, and Loizos Heracleous. "How do innovators stay innovative? A longitudinal case analysis." Journal of Services Marketing 32, no. 1 (2018): 34–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jsm-02-2017-0052.
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Purpose How can some companies be the innovation leader in their industry over prolonged periods of time, whereas others cannot? The purpose of this study is to understand a firm’s capability to be a successful serial innovator and to generate a constant stream of industry-leading innovations. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses a longitudinal case study approach to gain an understanding of what and how Singapore Airlines sustained service innovation for over 30 years. The study uses triangulation, whereby the core data from in-depth interviews with senior and middle management and frontline employees were complemented with academic research, case studies, annual reports, observations and archival documents. In total, 240 single-spaced pages of interview transcripts with over 130,000 words were analyzed and coded using MAXQDA for identifying repeated patterns of meaning. Findings The authors identified three key institutional foundations for service innovation: innovation climate (i.e. leadership and service culture), human capital (i.e. recruitment, training and development and engagement and incentives) and resource configurations (i.e. systems, structure and processes). These foundations enabled the organization to build the following four service innovation-related dynamic capabilities: embrace ambidexterity, institutionalize learning and knowledge integration, orchestrate collaboration and reinvent customer value. Interestingly, these institutional foundations and capabilities remained largely stable across 30 years; what changed were the contexts and specifics, not the foundations and capabilities. Research limitations/implications Data were collected only from one company. Because of the method of thematic analysis, the generalizability of the findings needs further investigation. Originality/value This study is the first to investigate the drivers of industry-leading sustained service innovation over a prolonged period of time. The proposed framework provides a fuller and more integrated picture of sustained service innovation than past cross-sectional studies.
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Ng, Reuben, and Kelvin Bryan Tan. "Implementing an Individual-Centric Discharge Process across Singapore Public Hospitals." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 16 (2021): 8700. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168700.
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Singapore is one of the first known countries to implement an individual-centric discharge process across all public hospitals to manage frequent admissions—a perennial challenge for public healthcare, especially in an aging population. Specifically, the process provides daily lists of high-risk patients to all public hospitals for customized discharge procedures within 24 h of admission. We analyzed all public hospital admissions (N = 150,322) in a year. Among four models, the gradient boosting machine performed the best (AUC = 0.79) with a positive predictive value set at 70%. Interestingly, the cumulative length of stay (LOS) in the past 12 months was a stronger predictor than the number of previous admissions, as it is a better proxy for acute care utilization. Another important predictor was the “number of days from previous non-elective admission”, which is different from previous studies that included both elective and non-elective admissions. Of note, the model did not include LOS of the index admission—a key predictor in other models—since our predictive model identified frequent admitters for pre-discharge interventions during the index (current) admission. The scientific ingredients that built the model did not guarantee its successful implementation—an “art” that requires the alignment of processes, culture, human capital, and senior management sponsorship. Change management is paramount, otherwise data-driven health policies, no matter how well-intended, may not be accepted or implemented. Overall, our study demonstrated the viability of using artificial intelligence (AI) to build a near real-time nationwide prediction tool for individual-centric discharge, and the critical factors for successful implementation.
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Yahya, Faizal. "Transmigrant Identities and Human Capital Flows in Singapore." European Journal of East Asian Studies 12, no. 2 (2013): 243–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700615-13120205.
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Čirjevskis, Andrejs. "Unbundling dynamic capabilities in successful Asian-Pacific shipping companies." Journal of Asia Business Studies 11, no. 2 (2017): 113–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jabs-11-2015-0192.
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Purpose This paper aims to add to the understanding of dynamic capabilities (DC) as sources of competitive advantage of successful Asian-Pacific shipping companies by demonstrating that DC development unfolds in three steps, from recognition that the environment has changed, to the decision to deploy DC, to assets re-orchestration. Design/methodology/approach Based on an approach involving two illustrative case studies, the author analyzed DC development of Chinese and Singaporean-based shipping groups in depth. The analysis was centered on DC by investigating how strategic decision-making on vertical integration, diversification and implementation of new technologies can be underpinned by developing DC to create sustained advantages. Findings The author found that strategic components of DC are rooted in strategic decision-making to initiate changes on the corporate and even on an operational level. Research limitations/implications While capability development is thoroughly studied, capability erosion has not been integrated into the research. The exploration of human capital as a firm’s idiosyncratic resource in assets orchestration capabilities can be future work. Practical implications The proposed research contributes to the debate on micro foundations of DC and provides insights for practitioners striving for retaining competitive advantages. Social implications Regarding implications for the society, the research shows how the DC serve to generate competitive advantages. The author has presented a logical structure of the competitive advantage paradigm as a product of DC and business models that can be useful to decision makers. Originality/value The research offers insights into the composition of micro foundations of DC and demonstrates that DC can be unbounded into well-known and concrete strategic and operational management activities.
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Ho, K. C., and Yun Ge. "Education and human capital management in a world city: the case of Singapore." Asia Pacific Journal of Education 31, no. 3 (2011): 263–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02188791.2011.595058.
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Lim, Ghee-Soon, and Soo-Choon Lye. "Pawnbroking in Singapore." Asian Case Research Journal 05, no. 02 (2001): 251–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s021892750100010x.
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Started in 1875, pawnbroking was a unique small business sector in Singapore. Its core business activity comprised giving out loans to walk-in pawners who presented valuables as collateral (pledges). Pawnbrokers made most of their profits from the interest differentials between the interests charged on the loans and the cost of capital of providing the loans. They were allowed to auction off unredeemed pledges through approved auction houses to recover their losses. Pawnbrokers were also allowed to purchase unredeemed pledges that had been pawned with themselves at the auction. About 90% of the pledges accepted by pawnbrokers thus were gold and jewelry. This case provides a detailed description of the pawnbroking industry in Singapore and the operations of pawnbrokers. The case is useful for teaching in areas such as industry analysis, company operation and human resource management.
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Rodrigues, Manoel Goncalves, and Fernando Jose Pereira da Costa. "Industry, Technological Progress and Development: The Case of Southeast Asia." International Journal of Advances in Management and Economics 9, no. 6 (2020): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.31270/ijame/v09/i06/2020/1.
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Asian countries as Singapore, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, China, Vietnam, Malaysia, among others in the Southeast Asia and East Asia have been implementing industrial projects, which are accompanied by a clear process of progress and training human capital in terms of technology and innovation. These countries opted for development processes with a significant degree of direct or indirect state action, with strong investments in education and technology and innovation. This whole process would eventually promote an upgrade of these countries in terms of the system-world economy. Keyword: Asia, Technology, Innovation.
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Omar, Siti Sarah, Zailin Zainal Ariffin, Nomahaza Mahadi, Zubidah Ahmad, and Rohaizan Ramlan. "Employees’ Human Capital: Multiple-Case Studies of Small Manufacturing Firms." Advanced Science Letters 24, no. 6 (2018): 4644–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/asl.2018.11673.
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Yeo, Roland. "Linking organisational learning to organisational performance and success: Singapore case studies." Leadership & Organization Development Journal 24, no. 2 (2003): 70–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01437730310463260.
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HOE, YOW CHEUN. "Weakening Ties with the Ancestral Homeland in China: The Case Studies of Contemporary Singapore and Malaysian Chinese." Modern Asian Studies 39, no. 3 (2005): 559–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x04001477.
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In the last two decades there has been much scholarly and journalistic attention given to the issue of how Chinese overseas relate themselves to China. This happened against a backdrop of two major developments in Asia. The first has to do with the fact that many ethnic Chinese outside mainland China have been faring well economically and accumulating considerable wealth in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in the second half of the twentieth century. The second is the rise of China as an economic superpower attracting foreign capital after it reopened itself and launched economic reform in 1978.
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Moore, Matthew D., and Jerry Daday. "Barriers to human capital development: Case studies in Swaziland, Cameroon and Kenya." Africa Education Review 7, no. 2 (2010): 283–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2010.515418.
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Kang, Yoonhee. "“Beat Your Child with a Flower!”." Asian Journal of Social Science 44, no. 6 (2016): 740–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685314-04406007.
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As a new dimension of transnational connections between East and Southeast Asia, this paper explores educational migration of South Korean “early study abroad” (jogi yuhak) students and accompanying mothers to Singapore. In examining Asian educational migrants to the “West”, many previous studies tend to focus on the accumulation of cultural and linguistic capital not available within Asia. However, I argue that the study of educational migration within Asia needs to go beyond the Bourdieuan framework of capital accumulation. Instead, the case of South Korean educational migrants in Singapore illustrates that these migrants emphasise more on the enactment rather than accumulation of cultural capital, the process wherein many emotional resources and embodied techniques are required in order to activate what the migrant students have accumulated through their overseas education. This study identifies the “Asian advantage”, specific types of emotional and educational benefits that are believed to facilitate the migrant students’ capital enactment in their imaginings of future trajectories of “going global”.
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Banik, Arindam, and Pradip K. Bhaumik. "Project management and development of human capital in the Caribbean: three case studies." Management Decision 44, no. 8 (2006): 1076–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00251740610690621.
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Cheah, Sarah Lai-Yin, Yinping Yang, and Ozcan Saritas. "Reinventing product-service systems: the case of Singapore." foresight 21, no. 3 (2019): 332–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/fs-12-2018-0107.
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PurposeThis paper aims to discuss a foresight study conducted in Singapore’s national R&D agency to help science and technology decision makers identify key capability areas of R&D investment to support the manufacturing industry’s growth in the country and the region.Design/methodology/approachUsing horizon scanning, scenario analysis and expert opinion, nine capabilities are identified as core areas to be developed to support the country’s future growth of product-service systems.FindingsThe results of a Delphi survey involving 30 industry and academic thought leaders recommend priorities of these capabilities. This paper concludes with a discussion of the study implications for theory, research and practice in the domain of servitisation and product-service systems.Research limitations/implicationsThe foresight study presented here on the future of servitisation in Singapore demonstrates one of the first fully fledged applications of foresight in constructing a coherent vision of future product-service system markets. In this study, the authors applied systemic foresight methodology (SFM) comprising the first six phases: initiation (scoping), intelligence (scanning), imagination (scenarios), integration (priorities), interpretation (strategies) and implementation (action).For future research, an ideal step would be to proceed with the final phase of the SFM, impact, to develop indicators for servitisation and to monitor and evaluate the transition process.Practical implicationsManufacturing and services are no longer distinct concepts with a clear divide. Manufacturing firms not only become more service dependent but also produce and provide services for their consumers. This transformation towards servitisation implies fundamental re-organisation of the production and management practices. Furthermore, through new business models, new and loyal customers will be gained, which will in turn bring additional income, while making the companies less prone to economic and business fluctuations.Social implicationsThe results of this study have practical implications for policymakers of public and private sectors that are interested in playing a key role in future product-service system innovation. These have implications for developing the human and intellectual capital that are required for supporting the future innovation. Institutes of higher learning and vocational institutes should also consider incorporating new curricula and modules to build the capabilities for knowledge creation and transfer.Originality/valueThe findings of the present study on strategic growth areas and relevant critical capabilities provide new directions for research in the field of servitisation. Among the nine capabilities identified, the top three were advanced customer intelligence capability, socio-physical service quality, traceability and maintainability and integrated strategic decision-making. From the results, it is apparent that advanced customer intelligence capability is both an area of importance to Singapore and the world.
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Isreal Akingba, Idowu Opeoluwa, Shivee Ranjanee Kaliappan, and Hanny Zurina Hamzah. "Impact of health capital on economic growth in Singapore: an ARDL approach to cointegration." International Journal of Social Economics 45, no. 2 (2018): 340–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijse-12-2016-0376.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the long-term impacts of health capital on economic growth in Singapore from 1980 to 2013. Design/methodology/approach Autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL)-ECM methodology and several diagnostic and specification tests were used to estimate the impact of health capital on economic growth on time series data covering the period 1980-2013. Findings The results confirm that health capital (measure by health expenditure per capita) positively and significantly affects Singapore’s economic growth in the long run. In addition, the equilibrium error correction coefficient lagged by one in the short-run is approximately 83.25 percent for all estimated variables, implying a considerably high speed of long-term adjustment to equilibrium following a short-term shock. Moreover, the Toda-Yamamoto’s Granger causality estimation reveals that there is a unidirectional causality from health expenditure per capita to GDP per capita. Research limitations/implications The findings imply that Singapore’s economic growth could be improved significantly if expenditure on health capital is increased. This eventually would have a substantial impact on human productivity which leads to improved output per capita. Thus, policy makers and/or the government should strive to create institutional capacity to improve basic health service by strengthening the health institutions infrastructure that produces healthy and quality manpower. Originality/value Grounded on the premises that there are little or no studies on the impact of health capital on Singapore economy, this paper provides new evidence on the potential effect of health capital on Singapore’s economic growth over the last three decades. Also, this study explore the causal effect (unidirectional or bidirectional) between health capital and economic growth.
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Strother, Stuart C., Steven G. Koven, David Howarth, and Zhenfeng Pan. "Building Human Capital Through Public-Private Cooperation: The Case of Metropolitan College." Economic Development Quarterly 18, no. 4 (2004): 343–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891242404269158.
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Ud Din, Maaz, Ana Kadarningsih, and Herry Subagyo. "Human Capital Investment: Case State-Owned Banks and Sharia Banks." International Journal of Islamic Business and Economics (IJIBEC) 4, no. 1 (2020): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.28918/ijibec.v4i1.1979.
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The objective of study is to find the influence of company size, human capital investments, and leverage on financial performance. Case studies on State-Owned Banks and State-Owned Sharia Banks in Indonesia for the 2012-2018 period. The number of samples uses in the study were four State-Owned Banks and four State-Owned Sharia Banks in Indonesia. The samples of this study were the financial report that taken from the Indonesia Stock Exchange and the Indonesia Financial Service Authority with period 2012-2018. The analysis method for this research is linear regression methods, test of classic assumption, determinant coefficient, F-test, T-test. The findings show that the size and leverage variables have no significantly effect on financial performance in State-Owned Banks, while the human capital investments have a positive effect and significantly on financial performance. The results also show that human capital and leverage have no impact on financial performance in State-Owned Sharia Banks, but has size have significant effect on financial performance. Human capital investment was most variable that impact financial performance significantly in State-Owned Banks. Otherwise, size was the most significantly variable that effect financial performance in State-Owned Sharia Banks. The results show that the size and leverage variables have no significantly effect on financial performance in State-Owned Banks, while the human capital investments have positive effect and significantly on financial performance. The results also show that human capital and leverage have no significantly effect on financial performance in State-Owned Sharia Banks, but size have significantly effect on financial performance. Human capital investment is the most significant variable that influence financial performance in State-Owned Banks. Otherwise, size is the most significant variable that influence financial performance in State-Owned Sharia Banks.
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Acevedo, Juan David Rivera, and Min-ni Wu. "A Proposed Framework to Analyze the Impact Investing Ecosystem in a Cross-Country Perspective." Review of European Studies 10, no. 4 (2018): 87. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/res.v10n4p87.
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This study developed an impact investing ecosystem framework to present a comprehensive overview of the impact investing sector, identifying key challenges and possibilities. Two Asian countries, Japan and Singapore, were used as case studies. The proposed framework revealed that the market scales in Japan and Singapore were small and each country faces unique challenges for developing impact investing. For Japan, the low level of philanthropic activities and the small social sector were the key challenges to overcome for impact investing growth. For Singapore, the government’s low social expending strategy may limit the development. However, both countries have supportive environments for impact investing due to high-quality human resources, well-developed financial markets and political interest. In particular, the high total wealth of high network individuals (HNWI) in Japan and large donations to charities in Singapore (% GDP) offer rich potential.
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Zainuddin, Zairul Nurshazana, Suzana Sulaiman, Nurul Ezhawati Abdul Latif, and Mahfuzah Ahmad. "Human Capital: Key driver towards business success." Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal 5, SI2 (2020): 3–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v5isi2.2332.
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A company is a reflection of its people; human capital in recent years is believed to be a key business success factor. Limited researches in Malaysia on valuing human capital and its contribution motivate the study to be conducted. The case study method is used, with two Malaysian companies awarded as the Best Employers in recent years. The study proved that by having committed people in the companies and by responding to employee needs, it is a sign that companies are concerned with their personal and career life. Indirectly instill motivation among employees to drive towards business success together. Keywords: Human Capital; Business Success; Case study; Malaysia. eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2020. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v5iSI2.2332
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Omobowale, Ayokunle Olumuyiwa, and Akinpelu Olanrewaju Olutayo. "Social capital and human development in Nigeria: the case of Lalupon Community, Ibadan, Oyo State." African Identities 7, no. 1 (2009): 77–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725840802583348.
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Djojo, Brata Wibawa. "Mengukur Kontribusi Human Capital terhadap Tujuan Perusahaan." Binus Business Review 1, no. 2 (2010): 388. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/bbr.v1i2.1084.
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Human capital is a valuable asset of any company, especially for competent human resources and contributes both to the company. The performance evaluation given to employees annually can be defined and standardized by the company. However, the question is how big the contribution of human resources to sales and profit contribution is. Case studies take data from one branch of a general insurance company in Indonesia, Jakarta branch. Measurement is done by taking samples of data from 2007, 2008, and 2009. The study measures the risk of several components: (i) Human Capital Revenue Factor, (ii) Human Economic Value Added, (iii) Human Capital Cost Factor, (iv) Human Capital Value Added, and (v) Human Capital Return on Investment. Results of research can provide guidelines for the management, especially for management of JLI in view of Human Capital contribution to corporate objectives, namely in terms of staffing and agency.
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Tucker, Elissa. "Secrets to success: human capital management strategy." Strategic HR Review 17, no. 4 (2018): 170–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/shr-05-2018-0034.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to detail four elements that drive human capital management (HCM) strategies that get business results. Design/methodology/approach Analysis of APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking® data and human capital management best practices case studies reveals how to establish the groundwork and successfully execute an HCM strategy. Findings A successful HCM strategy requires specific groundwork and execution to support workforce performance. In terms of groundwork, HR must display strategic competence and business insight. Then, HR must establish a solid implementation infrastructure and follow-up with a comprehensive results assessment. Originality/value Many HR professionals understand what needs to go into an HCM plan for compensation and benefits, long-term workforce strategy, succession, diversity, learning, retention and HR technology updates and upgrades. This paper details how best-practice organizations successfully build and implement such plans and what tangible results an HR function can expect from adopting the four detailed best practices.
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Cuberes, David, and Richard Ramsawak. "Understanding Recent Growth Dynamics in Small Urban Places: The Case of New England." City & Community 19, no. 1 (2020): 44–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cico.12455.
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This article utilizes recently published US Census data covering the pre–and post–Great Recession period (1990–2015) to identify key determinants of growth among small urban places in the New England Region. We find little evidence of random growth and robust evidence of convergence in growth, indicating that smaller urban areas tend to experience faster rates of growth than larger ones, over both the short and long term. Factors such as distance to large city areas and amenities are found to be particularly relevant to population growth rates. Having a diverse industrial base, high levels of human capital and proximity to large urban areas are factors that positively affect income growth. These results highlight the importance of policies geared to improve cities’ amenities, increase their industrial diversity, and attracting and retaining human capital in urban areas.
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Bal-Woźniak, Teresa. "Human Capital and Innovativeness as Means to Bridging Development Gaps. Poland and the Czech Republic as Case Studies." Review of Economic Perspectives 10, no. 3 (2010): 87–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10135-009-0011-6.
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Human Capital and Innovativeness as Means to Bridging Development Gaps. Poland and the Czech Republic as Case Studies The aim of this article is to analyze the innovative achievements of selected economies: Polish and Czech. This issue is of fundamental significance for all post socialist countries. Post communist heritage in form of homo sovieticus is really far from innovative performance. The author assumed that innovativeness is the component of human capital whilst the conceptions of innovativeness were dealt with as the development challenge and the criterion of efficiency for contemporary economies, creating the opportunity to speed up the pace of narrowing the development gap. It is reflected in the title of the study. The methodological basis and data source are Knowledge Assessment Methodology (KAM 2009) and European Innovation Scorecard (EIS 2009). The fulfillment of this aim, in the author's opinion, relied on presenting the coordination of innovative actions of managing entities and underlining the growing significance of network structures. On the basis of the conducted empirical analysis encompassing the years 2003-2008, there was observed, mostly in Poland and to smaller extent in the Czech Republic, a low level of innovativeness and its unsatisfactory dynamics, as well as poor use of relatively numerous human capital for attaining goals. In the conclusion part of the article, there were presented problems connected with the necessity of consequent impact on the quality of human capital and level of innovativeness. In order to overcome barriers, the author postulates to establish a pro-innovative institutional order and indicates the need for systemic attitude towards these reforms.
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Nar, Mehmet. "The Relationship Between Human Capital and Financial Development: A Case Study of Turkey." International Journal of Financial Research 11, no. 1 (2019): 157. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/ijfr.v11n1p157.
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The current growth literature has focused on the contribution of the human and financial variables to growth. This has led to an insufficient and low number of studies investigating the relationship between the financial and human variables. However, in order to establish effective public policies, the correlation between these two variables must be well known. In line with this necessity, this study aimed to contribute the relevant literature by investigating the relations of the two variables in the case of Turkey. To do so, firstly, the human and financial development index for Turkey was established. Subsequently, the financial development indicator was measured through the M2/GDP ratio, and the human capital indicator was measured through the education and health expenditures/GDP ratio. Through the econometric analysis carried out using the data from the period of 1998-2016, the existence of causality and the direction of this causality between the financial development and human capital accumulation in Turkey were investigated. As a result, it was observed that in Turkey, while financial development causes the accumulation of human capital, there is no significant causality directed from human capital to financial development.
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Pompili, Tomaso. "The Role of Human Capital in Urban System Structure and Development: The Case of Italy." Urban Studies 29, no. 6 (1992): 905–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00420989220080871.
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Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Rapti, Tilo Schöne, Johannes Herbeck, et al. "The ‘wickedness’ of governing land subsidence: Policy perspectives from urban Southeast Asia." PLOS ONE 16, no. 6 (2021): e0250208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250208.
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Drawing on Jakarta, Metro Manila and Singapore as case studies, we explore the paradox of slow political action in addressing subsiding land, particularly along high-density urban coastlines with empirical insights from coastal geography, geodesy analysis, geology, and urban planning. In framing land subsidence as a classic ‘wicked’ policy problem, and also as a hybrid geological and anthropogenic phenomenon that is unevenly experienced across urban contexts, the paper uses a three-step analysis. First, satellite-derived InSAR maps are integrated with Sentinel-1A data in order to reveal the socio-temporal variability of subsidence rates which in turn pose challenges in uniformly applying regulatory action. Second, a multi-sectoral mapping of diverse policies and practices spanning urban water supply, groundwater extraction, land use zoning, building codes, tenurial security, and land reclamation reveal the extent to which the broader coastal governance landscape remains fragmented and incongruous, particularly in arresting a multi-dimensional phenomenon such as subsidence. Finally, in reference to distinct coastal identities of each city–the ‘Sinking Capital’ (Jakarta), ‘Fortress Singapore’, and the ‘Disaster Capital’ (Manila) the paper illustrates how land subsidence is portrayed across the three metropolises in markedly similar ways: as a reversible, quasi-natural, and/or a highly individualized problem.
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Agafonova, Mariia. "HUMAN CAPITAL OF UKRAINE IN GLOBAL RANKINGS." Educational Analytics of Ukraine, no. 2 (2020): 29–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.32987/2617-8532-2020-2-29-40.
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This paper presents the research on human capital in the global ranking studies and determining the place of Ukraine and the city of Kyiv in them in terms of human capital indicators, in order to increase the efficiency of using human capital and achieve competitiveness in this field. International rankings are an important tool for positioning countries and cities in the international arena and allow an objective assessment of the level of competitiveness of Ukraine and, in particular, the city of Kyiv in comparison with other countries and cities of the world. The author analyzes human capital development using global ranking studies such as the Institute for Management Development (IMD) Smart City Index, IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking, and IMD World Talent Ranking. With the help of these studies, the author examines: the ranking position of Kyiv among other cities in the world by the Smart city index; the scores of Kyiv among European cities on the level of IT skills at schools; the accessibility level to go to schools providing high quality education of the vast majority of Kyiv pupils among other European cities; Ukraine's place in the world on the sub-factor "teaching and education" during 2015-2019; Ukraine's place in the world on the criteria of "graduates in the field of ICT, mechanical engineering, mathematics and natural sciences" during 2018-2019; as well as Ukraine's place in the world on the sub-factor "concentration of science" during 2015-2019. To assess the development, involvement, and retention of highly qualified specialists in Ukraine, Ukraine's ratings were monitored for the following factors: investment and development (the amount of allocated resources for the cultivation of its own human capital), attractiveness (the degree of involvement of local and foreign talents) and readiness (the quality of skills and competencies available to the country) during 2011-2019. The research makes leads to the following conclusions: the competitive advantages of human capital development in Ukraine include the amount of resources allocated for the cultivation of its own human capital; the level of education and training in Ukraine in general and the city of Kyiv in particular, as well as the productivity of R&D in publications; the competitive weaknesses include the lack of a motivational component, as well as the recruitment and retention of highly qualified personnel, and, as a result, a significant level of "brain drain" abroad. In order to use human capital effectively, Ukraine should attract highly qualified workers to the R&D field as soon as possible. It is extremely important and, unfortunately, almost underdeveloped in Ukraine to motivate their activities, borrowing the experience of developed countries. In this case, the country will get rid of such a significant level of outflow of qualified personnel abroad, will concentrate more quickly on the production of science-intensive high-tech products, and will become competitive in the field of human capital and high technologies.
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Ho, Ezra. "Smart subjects for a Smart Nation? Governing (smart)mentalities in Singapore." Urban Studies 54, no. 13 (2016): 3101–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098016664305.
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As visions of smart urbanism gain traction around the world, it is crucial that we question the benefits that an increasingly technologised urbanity promise. It is not about the technology, but bettering peoples’ lives, insist smart city advocates. In this paper, I question the progressive potential of the smart city drawing on the case of Singapore’s Smart Nation initiative. Using the case studies of the smart home and ‘learning to code’ movement, I highlight the limits of such ‘smart’ interventions as they are stunted by the neoliberal-developmental logics of the state, thereby facilitating authoritarian consolidation in Singapore. As such, this paper distinguishes itself from previous works on the neoliberal smart city by situated smart urbanism within the socio-political dynamics of neoliberalism-as-developmental strategy. For smart urbanism to better peoples’ everyday lives, technological ‘solutionism’ needs to be replaced with more human-centric framings and understandings of urban challenges.
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Fabiyi, Malcolm, and Spencer Snowling. "Bringing Operator Training & Human Capital Development into the 21st Century with Virtual Plant Models – Case Studies." Proceedings of the Water Environment Federation 2018, no. 1 (2018): 560–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2175/193864718823773869.
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Royal, C., J. Evans, and S. S. Windsor. "The missing strategic link – human capital knowledge, and risk in the finance industry – two mini case studies." Venture Capital 16, no. 3 (2014): 189–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691066.2014.916856.
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Srirama, Mamatha V., Parameshwar P. Iyer, and Hariprasad Reddy. "Dimensions of social capital and learning culture: a case of an IT organization." Learning Organization 27, no. 4 (2020): 337–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tlo-06-2019-0094.
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Purpose Earlier studies of social capital have focused on its influence on various aspects of business. There is substantial void in the literature on how social capital enables learning culture in organizations. The purpose of this paper is to explore direct and indirect relations between dimensions of social capital and learning culture in the organizational context. Design/methodology/approach A survey-based research was conducted in which the questionnaire based on the Dimensions of Learning Organization Questionnaire (DLOQ) and social capital was used. Participants in this study were employees from an IT organization based in India. Data was subjected to structural equation modeling to understand causal relations between social capital and learning culture. Findings This empirical study emphatically shows that parameters of social capital positively influence individual learning. Results show that shared vision, shared narratives in the cognitive dimension; trust and identification in the relational dimension; and mutual confiding in the structural dimension have a positive influence on individual learning. Originality/value Findings in this paper indicate that a culture of learning in organizations starts with individuals and it can be fueled and sustained by social capital embedded within the organization if managers focus on enabling the factors identified in this study through policies and practices.
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Meflinda, Astuti, Mahyarni Mahyarni, Henni Indrayani, and Hesty Wulandari. "The effect of social capital and knowledge sharing to the small medium enterprise’s performance and sustainability strategies." International Journal of Law and Management 60, no. 4 (2018): 988–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijlma-03-2017-0073.
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Purpose The development of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Indonesia is one of the national economic development priorities. SMEs have given benefits for society, especially in creating a fair income distribution and supporting economic growth. This paper aims to examine and analyze the impact of social capital and knowledge sharing on the sustainability strategy and performance of SME and to formulate policies about SMEs in the future. Design/methodology/approach This research was carried out in Riau Province, which is the closest province to Malaysia and Singapore. The authors collected data from 56 SMEs in trading and craft industries by using the purposive sampling method. The data were analyzed using partial least square technique. Findings The result of data analysis shows that social capital and knowledge sharing significantly affect the sustainability strategy of SMEs. Furthermore, sustainability strategy and knowledge sharing affects SME performance significantly, whereas social capital does not affect its performance. Originality/value A participatory approach (partial least square) was used, the location of the research was Riau Province, Indonesia and the participants in this study are the perpetrators of the micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises. This method and location have not been considered in earlier studies.
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Koh, Carolyn, Mario Fernando, and Trevor Spedding. "Exercising responsible leadership in a Singapore context." Leadership & Organization Development Journal 39, no. 1 (2018): 34–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/lodj-09-2015-0215.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the western developed notion of responsible leadership (RL) from a Singapore context. Design/methodology/approach Following the qualitative research tradition, face-to-face interviews with 20 influential Singaporean leaders were developed into case studies. Grounded theory methodology was applied to identify similarities and differences within and across cases. Findings The findings reveal that the interviewed Singaporean leaders projected traits and values consistent with western definitions of responsible and effective leadership. Findings also suggest that contextual factors such as national culture and the ethos of the nation as well as leaders’ relational intelligence influence RL. These factors also help responsible leaders to better manage the tension between responsible and effective leadership. Research limitations/implications The small and geographically bound sample size makes it difficult to generalise the findings of this study. As in other ethics studies, interviewees’ desire to present a socially desirable image of themselves could be high in this study. Finally, the methods and analytical techniques applied may be biased and be influenced by the purposive selection of the participants. Practical implications Singaporean business leaders may need to consider the importance of retaining and developing the national culture and ethos of the nation, since these are the factors that have been identified in this study as key to influencing RL. Originality/value This study identifies the factors that influence RL from a Singapore context. It extends the understanding of the mostly western-based multi-level theory of RL.
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Erni, John Nguyet. "Toward a Juris-cultural Studies of Human Rights." IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies 6, SI (2021): 3–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.22492/ijcs.6.si.01.
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This special issue grew out of an advanced seminar on Cultural Studies that I guest-taught at the National University of Singapore in 2018, where there has been a long-time engagement with interdisciplinary teaching and learning in the field of Cultural Studies through NUS’s Asian Research Institute (and more recently through the university’s Department of Communication and New Media). The essays collected here represent a collection of sincere efforts to reframe political and ethical crises through a unified framework that can be called juris-cultural studies of law and rights. By “juris-cultural,” I refer to a genre of critical cultural analysis that investigates the mutually constitutive nature of law and culture, through dissecting “law as culture” in which cultural signifying practices are traceable to the presence or absence of legal norms, as well as through “culture as law” in which the contested meanings of cultural communities, their practices and politics, can shape or even dictate social norms and regulations. It is both a political language and a method that avoids separating law and culture but confronts their uneasy entanglements. The essays are united by a common critical method of combining critical legal theory with a cultural critique of law. Each essay centers on a particular court case, and performs critical reading of the legal logics and reasoning alongside a broader attention to social and cultural ideologies and power relations that overdetermine the outcome of the court judgment. The insights produced by such a method will hopefully present to readers an innovative approach adequate to the task of bringing the problems of rights, legal subjectivities, and critical justice squarely to the doorsteps of Cultural Studies.
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Fourati, Hedia, and Habib Affes. "Intellectual Capital Investment, Stakeholders' Value, Firm Market Value and Financial Performance: The Case of Tunisia Stock Exchange." Journal of Information & Knowledge Management 12, no. 02 (2013): 1350010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s021964921350010x.
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of intellectual capital investment in improving the firm's market value, stakeholders' value and financial performance. Using data drawn from 21 listed companies in Tunisia Stock Exchange, we conducted two studies. On one hand, from using Charreaux (Charreaux (2006). La valeur partenariale: Vers une mesure opérationnelle. Cahier de FARGO no. 1061103, November) measure of stakeholders' value, we demonstrate that financials come to present the weakest stakeholders' value and clients monopolises in term of value acquisition due to a weak ability of negotiation of firms. On the other hand, we construct a regression model of Pulic's value added intellectual capital investment (VAIC) as the measure of the value added from intellectual capital, in market valuation and financial performance. Our results stressed the fact that there is a positive impact of intellectual capital by human capital efficiency and capital employed efficiency on improving firm's market value. Nevertheless, financial performance measured by ROA is still justified by the traditional measure relying on capital employed efficiency. Indeed for Tunisian quoted firms, human capital investment is a pilar for ameliorating firm market valuation of financial performance.
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Khoo, Suet Leng, and Yoke Mui Lim. "Dissecting George Town’s human capital challenges in built heritage." Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development 9, no. 3 (2019): 376–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jchmsd-10-2017-0072.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify, dissect and unravel real-life contextual human capital issues related to George Town’s built heritage from the perspectives of key stakeholders in the heritage arena. Design/methodology/approach The paper opted for an exploratory study using qualitative techniques like in-depth interviews and focus group discussions to gather insights and to listen to the voices from key stakeholders pertaining to issues related to human capital in built heritage. The data were supplemented and complemented by secondary resources such as technical reports, conservation guidelines, by-laws and case studies from other countries. Findings The paper provides empirical insights about real-life issues, barriers and challenges pertaining to human capital in George Town’s built heritage. The key findings from this study revealed that the quantity of professionals and builders is still insufficient and their quality of work has room for improvement. Research limitations/implications Due to the selected research approach, the research results may lack generalisability. Thus, researchers are encouraged to further test the proposed propositions by enlarging the number of respondents or administering this similar study in another locality/historic city (i.e. Malacca ‒ George Town’s twin historic city). Practical implications The paper provides practical implications for the development of the right quantity and quality of human capital for George Town’s built heritage. The findings from this study are also useful for urban managers, policymakers and conservation practitioners. Originality/value This paper fulfils an identified need to examine the real-life issues of human capital in built heritage for George Town.
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Lara Lara, Jaime. "Revisiting the Impacts on Human Capital and Labour Force Participation with Transitory Remittances." Remittances Review 5, no. 1 (2020): 3–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/rr.v5i1.870.
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Remittances can occur on a transitory basis due to motives related to insurance and investment; therefore, studies using cross-sectional information can omit populations that have received remittances in the past. This paper examines the impact of this omission in the case of Mexico. The proportion of the population living in households receiving remittances increases by almost a factor of two when we consider past periods. This additional population includes relatively more urban residents with higher socio-economic status and households with male household heads. However, when estimating the impact of remittances in labour force participation and school attendance, there is no difference when using an estimate defining the group of households receiving remittances similarly to studies using cross-sectional data in previous literature.
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RODRIGUES, DANIELA, and AURORA AC TEIXEIRA. "OPPORTUNITY AND NECESSITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: THE MODERATING EFFECT OF HUMAN CAPITAL." Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship 25, no. 04 (2020): 2050025. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1084946720500259.
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Although considerable research has been devoted to the study of the effect of entrepreneurship on economic growth, fewer studies have analyzed the effect of the types (opportunity vs necessity) of entrepreneurship on economic growth. Moreover, the latter set of studies overlooked the relevance of human capital as a mediating factor in the relation between (types of) entrepreneurship and economic growth. The aim of the present study is to fill in this gap by assessing the extent to which the direct and indirect effect of (the types of) entrepreneurship, via human capital, matters for countries’ economic growth. In methodological terms, we resort to fixed effects panel data estimations, involving a large set of (OECD and non-OECD) countries, over a relatively long time span (1990–2016). The results suggest total entrepreneurship has a positive effect on economic growth. Distinguishing between types of entrepreneurship, there is clear evidence that OE fosters economic growth, whereas necessity entrepreneurship inhibits it. Interestingly, human capital tends to mitigate the negative effect of necessity entrepreneurship on economic growth. In the case of opportunity entrepreneurship, the direct positive effect observed is reduced in contexts characterized by high levels of human capital, which might reflect increased opportunity costs.
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Markhaichuk, Maria, and Irina Zhuckovskaya. "The spread of the regional intellectual capital: the case of the Russian Federation." Oeconomia Copernicana 10, no. 1 (2019): 89–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.24136/oc.2019.005.
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Research background: The positive relationship between the availability of intellectual capital and the ability of the state, region or firm to develop economically stimulates an increase in the intellectual capital. In order to manage intellectual capital, it is necessary to have a clear idea of its availability, capacity, features, growth reserves, as well as concentration in certain territories and ability to spread. Many studies are devoted to the measurement of intellectual capital, its diffusion and impact on the economic efficiency of the organization, region, and nation. However, in the case of the Russian Federation there is a gap in the study of the spread of intellectual capital over the country.
 Purpose of the article: The purpose of the article is to evaluate intellectual capital in the federal districts of the Russian Federation and to model the spread of intellectual capital.
 Methods: Data on 8 Russian federal districts for the 2017 year from Unified Inter-departmental Information and Statistical System (EMISS) of the Russian Federation were taken as a basis for the research. Based on three-component model (human capital, structural capital, and relational capital), we formed a set of indicators for assessing regional intellectual capital, relevant to the Russian Federation. This allowed us to evaluate the integrated indicators of intellectual capital in federal districts and to determine the probability of intellectual capital spreading from each federal district to neighboring federal districts. We used percolation theory methods to model the spread of intellectual capital.
 Findings & Value added: The study contributes to the Russian regional knowledge on intellectual capital. Intellectual capital in the Russian Federation is disproportionately distributed, concentrating closer to the capital, and has a lower level in remote territories. It spreads unevenly, flowing from the Central Federal District to neighboring federal districts, however, other federal districts develop almost in isolation.
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Mgaya, Edward. "Acquiring Human Capital skills through Labour Migrancy: The case of Colonial Njombe District; 1900-1960s." International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences 5, no. 1 (2016): 51. http://dx.doi.org/10.17583/rimcis.2016.1820.
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The migration of labourers to centres of mining, plantations and industrial production has been one of the most important demographic features of the African continent since its incorporation into the capitalist money economy. It is, however, surprisingly that the influence of this phenomenon on rural transformations remains largely unexplored as most of studies have mostly addressed the negative consequences of labour migration pointing at the destructive nature of labour migration to the local communities. While not denying the detrimental impacts of labour migration, the paper integrates written and oral information to establish that such exclusive attribution of rural underdevelopment to labour migration was indeed a traditional way of viewing labour migration. Such views were mainly a result of over emphasis on just macro-economic cost-benefit analysis that economists have always considered and emphasized upon. This article, therefore, is an effort to go beyond such economic arena by considering the acquisition of human capital particularly linking labour migration with western education and the spread of the Swahili language. Drawing from transformational approaches, this article argues that knowledge and skills that Njombe migrant labourers got from different work places, imbued them with elements which knowingly or unknowingly became part of the instruments for the wider rural transformation.
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Park, Kiduk. "Social Capital and Residential Satisfaction in South Korea: A Comparative Study of Communities in Seoul, Yeoju and Gwacheon." Environment and Urbanization ASIA 11, no. 1 (2020): 140–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0975425320906279.
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Research suggests that social capital has positive influences on the improvement of quality of life (livability) and the creation of wealth. Some Western scholars have been interested in traditional social capital as an important element of modernization and rapid economic development in East Asian countries. This study compares and contrasts elements of social capital and residential satisfaction across three different residential communities in South Korea, namely apartment estates (Seoul and Gwacheon) and a rural village (Yeoju). Two major questions are posed: first, what differences exist in terms of the perception of the level of social capital and the reputation of the area within the different neighbourhood contexts? Second, what is the relationship between residential satisfaction and the perception of social capital? Using the results from 487 heads of households surveyed, this study assesses commonly recognized elements of each community, which includes social capital, social mix and residential satisfaction in the communities. The study findings suggest that three factors—norms, trust and networks—contribute equally to the case study areas. Also, ageing population and duration of residence were relevant to the development of neighbourhood-based social capital and residential satisfaction, and these factors need to be carefully considered by housing policy makers, social planners and others involved in implementing human settlements policies.
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Awang, Sa’adi, Siti Arni Basir, and Hasan Al-Banna Mohamed. "Pelaksanaan Program Pembangunan Modal Insan (PMI) di institusi Pengurusan Hal Ehwal Islam (PHEI): Kajian Kes di Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (JAKIM) (Implementation of Human Capital Development Program at the Institutions of Islamic Affairs Management: A Case Study at Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (JAKIM))." UMRAN - International Journal of Islamic and Civilizational Studies 6, no. 3 (2019): 9–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.11113/umran2019.6n3.274.
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Human capital is an important asset for the survival of organization. Poor human capital are not able to contribute effectively to the development of organization. Therefore, human capital must be developed through appropriate programs so that their potential can be harnessed to maximum level. Institutions of Islamic Affairs Management plays an important role in Malaysia. These institutions need competent human capital to ensure quality of services delivered are in accordance with customer expectations. However, human capital competency in the institutions of Islamic Affairs Management is still questionable. Literature shows that empirical studies about human capital development programs in the institutions of Islamic Affairs Management is sorely lacking. Therefore, the objective of this study is to explore the implementation of human capital development programs in the institution of JAKIM. This study employed qualitative methods using the JAKIM as case study organisation. A total of 15 informants were interviewed in this study. Data were analysed using thematic analysis which is facilitated by ATLAS ti software. The results showed there are 5 human capital development programs implemented in JAKIM that is training, education and knowledge, human resource management, quality and work experiences. The results also shows all the programs have been well implemented. The administrators either in public or private sector can use these findings as a guide to implement human capital development programs in their organisations effectively.
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Delmas, Adrien, and David Goeury. "Bordering the world as a response to emerging infectious disease. The case of SARS CoV-2." Borders in Globalization Review 2, no. 1 (2020): 12–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.18357/bigr21202019760.
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Facing emerging zoonose SARS-CoV-2, states decided unilaterally to close borders to individuals and revealed deep processes at work ‘bordering of the world’. Smart borders promoted by international organizations have allowed the filtering of indispensables (merchandise, data, capital and key workers) from dispensables (human beings) and, above all, the redefinition of the balance of biopolitical power between state and society. The observation of the unprecedented phenomenon of the activation and generalization of the global border machinery captures a common global dynamic. After a round-the-world tour of border closures between 21 January and 7 July 2020, we concentrate on a few emblematic cases: the Schengen zone, the USA–Canada and USA–Mexico borders, Brazil–Uruguay, Malaysia–Singapore and Morocco–Spain. We interrogate the justification and the strategies of border closure in a context of the global spread of an emerging epidemic, going beyond the simple medical argument. Choices appear to be dependent on ideological orientations henceforth dominant on the function and role of borders. We will discuss the acceleration of the bordering of the world, the forms of its outcome and its difficult reversibility
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Et.al, Emilda Hashim. "Reexamine the Impacts of Education Expenditure, Capital Formation, Human Capital and Expert Labor on Malaysian Economic Growth." Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT) 12, no. 3 (2021): 761–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/turcomat.v12i3.782.
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This study aims to reexamine the relationships between selected macroeconomic variables, especially the expenditure on education, on growth of Malaysian economy. Specifically, the exogenous variables in this study comprise of government education expenditure, investment, human capital and expert labor. For analysis purpose, this study adopts the time series data from 1988 until 2018. The estimated model is developed by employing ordinary least square technique (OLS). Outcome of this study discloses that human capital is the most crucial variable in elucidating Malaysian economic growth in the long term. Additionally, the study findings affirm that the government expenditure on education and capital formation are second and third outstanding variables in clarifying the economic growth in the observation time frame, respectively. Surprisingly, this particular study discovers that labor force expertise is irrelevant in influencing economic growth for Malaysia case. Consequently, the results of this study are parallel with other previous studies, especially on the roles that have been played by all variables aforementioned above. Albeit insignificant, expert labor still gives little impact to Malaysia’s economic growth at 10% confidence level. The reason being, as a high middle income country, human capital has more profound effect in promoting economic growth in Malaysia due to its ability to generate remarkably higher productivity for the nation compares to expert labor factor. For future study, further dynamic analysis is needed to prove the variables’ relationships in the short and long terms.
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SKWERES-KUCHTA, Małgorzata. "Key competences – investment in human capital within out-of-school education forms." Scientific Papers of Silesian University of Technology. Organization and Management Series 2020, no. 146 (2020): 427–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.29119/1641-3466.2020.146.30.
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Purpose: The aim of the research is to show how effective the tools in the form of extracurricular forms of education oriented at development of key competences. Design/methodology/approach: The article presents case study of investment in key competences of school-age children. The results of evaluation studies compliment the experience of chosen out-od-school educational projects conducted in the district mostly active in the field of initiative realization. The author also mentions a problem of considering and fulfilling children’s special educational needs. Findings: In the educational projects implemented in Pomeranian Voivodeship, the main emphasis was placed on the development of key competences, mostly students, and to a lesser extent - teachers. The interest in particular competences varied (39-95%). Similarly, the effects of undertaken measures were assessed as their impact on the attitudes of students in selected areas. Research limitations/implications: Too little attention paid to the special needs of pupils. Evaluation of effectiveness referred to the influence of particular forms of stimulation on the student's attitude in selected aspects. It was impossible to clearly attribute the impact of the investment on the results of exams summarizing a given stage of learning. Practical implications: The results of the research can be used to change the guidelines for constructing further support programmes for educational projects. This refers to technical guidelines, i.e. the formula for verifying the effects and the substantive ones, i.e. The scope of support for schools and students. Social implications: The work points to the need to implement solutions allowing for greater social inclusion of children with special news, including work on social awareness in this area. Originality/value The article attempts to assess the effectiveness of investing in the development of human capital at the stage of school education through extracurricular educational projects. The analysis was multi-level, from the European background, through the regional approach in Poland, to case studies in selected local governments. The results of the research may serve to construct further pro-educational projects in the region
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van den Berg, Henk, Suzanne Phillips, Marcel Dicke, and Marjon Fredrix. "Impacts of farmer field schools in the human, social, natural and financial domain: a qualitative review." Food Security 12, no. 6 (2020): 1443–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12571-020-01046-7.
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AbstractThe Farmer Field School (FFS) is a widely used method seeking to educate farmers to adapt agricultural decisions to diverse and variable field conditions. Out of 218 screened studies, 65 were selected to review the impact of the FFS. An analytical framework was developed with effects (outputs, outcomes and impacts) arranged according to the human, social, natural and financial domains. Impacts on non-participants of the FFS were addressed as peripheral effects. The FFS demonstrated its potential to enhance human, social, natural and financial capital of rural communities. Human capital was built in the form of critical thinking, innovation, confidence, and quality of life. Effects on social capital included mutual trust, bonding, collective action, networking, and emancipation. Natural capital was enhanced through improvements in field practices, food production, agricultural diversification, and food security. Financial capital was enhanced through increased income and profits, savings and loans schemes, with a potential to reduce poverty. The available body of evidence was unbalanced across the capital domains, providing high coverage of the natural domain but low coverage of the human, social and financial domains. In-depth case studies are needed to elucidate the interactions between livelihood assets, and the influences of the policy, institutional and external environment, in order to adjust FFS interventions aiming to optimize their impacts. Considering the positive effects the FFS can have on rural livelihoods, the FFS has potential to contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. However, quality assurance of the FFS and a balanced evaluation across the capital domains require attention.
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Deborah, Ong, Marcus Chiu, and Kai Cao. "Geographical Accessibility of Community Health Assist Scheme General Practitioners for the Elderly Population in Singapore: A Case Study on the Elderly Living in Housing Development Board Flats." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15, no. 9 (2018): 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15091988.
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Accessible primary healthcare is important to national healthcare in general and for older persons in particular, in societies where the population is ageing rapidly, as in Singapore. However, although much policy and research efforts have been put into this area, we hardly find any spatial perspective to assess the accessibility of these primary healthcare services. This paper analyzes the geographical accessibility of one major healthcare service in Singapore, namely, General Practitioners (GPs) services under the Community Health Assist Scheme (CHAS) for older persons. A Python script was developed to filter the website data of the Housing Development Board (HDB) of Singapore. The data derived was comprehensively analyzed by an Enhanced 2-Step Floating Catchment Area (E2SFCA) method based on a Gaussian distance-decay function and the GIS technique. This enabled the identification of areas with relatively weak geographical accessibility of CHAS-GPs. The findings are discussed along with suggestions for health practitioners, service planners and policy makers. Despite its initial nature, this study has demonstrated the value of innovative approaches in data collection and processing for the elderly-related studies, and contributed to the field of healthcare services optimization and possibly to other human services.
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Tan, Seow Hon. "Religion in the Abortion Discourse in Singapore: A Case Study of the Relevance of Religious Arguments in Law-Making in Multi-Religious Democracies." Journal of Law and Religion 26, no. 2 (2010): 505–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0748081400000692.
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I … appeal to hon. Members to face up to the challenge on this important social issue and give their full support to the Bill. I do hope that they will not falter just because of some pressure, social or otherwise, brought to bear on them by some minority groups outside who, on account of their religious dogmas, desire to impose their will on the majority… I am certain that the opposing stand to this Bill taken by this minority group will also in the course of time end up in the dustbins of history.Abortion, along with same-sex unions, is perhaps one of the world's most polarizing issues today. Laws on abortion vary across different jurisdictions, from prohibiting abortion under all circumstances to freely allowing it without restriction as to reason. Unlike rights such as freedom from torture or of speech, failure to recognize abortion rights is not necessarily the product of illiberal governments known to abuse human rights, nor is allowing abortion indicative of a good human rights record. Extensive rights to terminate a pregnancy may be symptomatic of a government's policy for population control, as in the case of China, or it may be an expression of the liberal philosophy of autonomy, as in the case of Canada.
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Pirdehghan, Azar, Abolghasem Rahimdel, Fariba Yazdanfar, and Mohammadreza Malekjamshidi. "Study of Social Capital Status in Patients With Primary Headache Compared to Control Group." Internal Medicine and Medical Investigation Journal 2, no. 3 (2017): 90. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/imminv.v2i3.89.
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Background: Social capital, in general, is mutual relationships, interactions, and networks that emerge among human grouping and is the level of trust formed in the specific group as commitment and social norm. This issue is associated with many mental and physical disorders in the community. The objective of this study was to evaluate the level of social capital in some people with a primary headache in comparison with control group.Methods: This case-control study was performed on 60 patients with a primary headache who referred to one of neurology clinics in Yazd city, Iran, as the case group and 60 subjects without primary headache as the control group that had some similarities with case group in demographic features. Data was collected via social capital questionnaire containing demographic information.Results: The mean score of social capital in the case group was 193.5±30.82 while the mean score of social capital in the control group was 214.1±34.22 (P=0.001) that indicate a significant correlation between social capital level and catching primary headache.Conclusion: Further studies are needed on the effect of social capital on the level of response to treatment in patients with primary headache. It is also suggested to be conducted interventions regarding the impact of social capital on headaches and broader studies with larger scale (urban population) in this regard.