- Title
- Management practices and innovation capacity in enterprises
- Creator
- Smith, Andy; Courvisanos, Jerry; McEachern, Steven; Tuck, Jacqueline
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/40992
- Identifier
- vital:5016
- Identifier
- ISBN:978-0-9805275-3-7
- Abstract
- This paper reports on a project which seeks to identify the role of human capital formation in promoting innovation in Australian enterprises and the ways in which enterprises can improve their human resource management and learning and development practices to improve their innovation performance. There are a number of factors that affect enterprises' ability to innovate. These include internal factors such as the ability to detect technological changes in the environment, the development of core competencies from which innovation can develop and external factors such as the maturity of the market which the enterprise serves and the impact of government policy to stimulate innovation. A range of studies have suggested that human factors within the enterprise are critical to innovation. However, these studies have not established exactly what practices enterprises need to put in place to improve their 'innovation capacity'. This paper reports the results from the research. The research method involved a survey of over 2,500 business enterprises and seven case studies drawn from the manufacturing, [information and communication technology] ICT and finance industries. The paper will discuss the major findings from the research.
- Publisher
- AVETRA
- Relation
- Paper presented at AVETRA, Research in VET: Janus- Reflecting back, projecting forward Vol. 2011, p. 1-14
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Human capital; Human resources; Organisational development; Continuous improvement; Case study
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