Are the HR responses of small firms different from large firms in times of recession?
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Lai, Y., Saridakis, G., Blackburn, R., & Johnstone, S. (2016)
Are the HR responses of small firms different from large firms in times of recession?. Journal of Business Venturing, 31(1), 113-131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2015.04.005
This paper uses British large scale survey data to examine the extent to which the recent financial crisis has affected firms' operational activity, and whether or not the exi...
Actual and intended growth in family firms and non-family-owned firms: are they different?
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Saridakis, G., Lai, Y., Muñoz Torres, R. I., & Mohammed, A. (2018)
Actual and intended growth in family firms and non-family-owned firms: are they different?. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, 5(1), 2-21. https://doi.org/10.1108/joepp-04-2017-0033
Purpose
Drawing on the motivation theory and family business literature, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of family effect in growth behaviour of smal...
Exploring the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment: an instrumental variable approach
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Saridakis, G., Lai, Y., Muñoz Torres, R. I., & Gourlay, S. (2019)
Exploring the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment: an instrumental variable approach. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 31(13), 1739-1769. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2017.1423100
The possible role of job satisfaction (JS) on organizational commitment (OC) has been a very important and hotly debated topic among experts. However, existing studies have yi...
Does workplace partnership deliver mutual gains at work?
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Saridakis, G., Lai, Y., & Johnstone, S. (2020)
Does workplace partnership deliver mutual gains at work?. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 41(4), 797-823. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831x17740431
This paper uses a large matched employer-employee dataset to assess the outcomes of workplace partnership for British firms and workers. Our findings suggest that HR practices...
Advancing national human resource development research: suggestions for multilevel investigations
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Garavan, T., Wang, J., Matthews-Smith, G., Nagarathnam, B., & Lai, Y. (2018)
Advancing national human resource development research: suggestions for multilevel investigations. Human Resource Development International, 21(4), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/13678868.2018.1429171
National human resource development (NHRD) is now an important area of investigation within human resource development with significant growth in publications over 49 years. S...
Exploring the relationship between HRM and firm performance: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies
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Saridakis, G., Lai, Y., & Cooper, C. L. (2017)
Exploring the relationship between HRM and firm performance: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. Human Resource Management Review, 27(1), 87-96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2016.09.005
Existing literature on human resource management (HRM) practices and firm performance suggests that there is a positive association between the two variables. Most of the stud...
Human resource practices, employee attitudes and small firm performance
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Lai, Y., Saridakis, G., & Johnstone, S. (2017)
Human resource practices, employee attitudes and small firm performance. International Small Business Journal, 35(4), 470-494. https://doi.org/10.1177/0266242616637415
This article uses the matched employee–employer dataset from the Workplace Employment Relations Study of 2011 (WERS2011) in Britain to empirically examine the direct relations...
Industry characteristics, stages of E-commerce communications, and entrepreneurs and SMEs revenue growth
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Saridakis, G., Lai, Y., Mohammed, A., & Hansen, J. M. (2018)
Industry characteristics, stages of E-commerce communications, and entrepreneurs and SMEs revenue growth. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 128, 56-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2017.10.017
This paper empirically examines the role of industry characteristics portrayed by information intensity of value chain or product in the relationship between the stages of E-c...
Job Stress in the United Kingdom: Are Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Large Enterprises Different?: Job Stress in the United Kingdom
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Lai, Y., Saridakis, G., & Blackburn, R. (2015)
Job Stress in the United Kingdom: Are Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Large Enterprises Different?: Job Stress in the United Kingdom. Stress and Health, 31(3), 222-235. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.2549
This paper examines the relationships between firm size and employees' experience of work stress. We used a matched employer–employee dataset (Workplace Employment Relations S...
L&D professionals in organisations: much ambition, unfilled promise
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Garavan, T., Heneghan, S., O'Brien, F., Gubbins, C., Lai, Y., Carbery, R., …Grant, K. (2020)
L&D professionals in organisations: much ambition, unfilled promise. European Journal of Training and Development, 44(1), 1-86. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJTD-09-2019-0166
This monograph reports a study investigating the roles of learning and development (L&D) professionals in Irish, UK European and US organisations. The study investigates the c...