Title :
A Study on the Comparison between Human-Capital-intensive Firms and Physical-Capital-intensive Firms
Author :
Lin, Chuangwei ; Chen, He
Author_Institution :
Jinan Univ., Guangzhou, China
Abstract :
The human-capital-intensive firms whose critical resource is human capital are changing the situation of the business, and have become an important new firm model. This paper analyzes the differences of characters between human-capital-intensive firms and physical-capital-intensive firms from four aspects: the critical resources of the firm, the control over employees, management issues and boundary problems.
Keywords :
labour resources; organisational aspects; boundary problem; business; critical resource; employee control; firm model; human-capital-intensive firm; management issue; physical-capital-intensive firm; Business; Economies of scale; Educational institutions; Humans; Law; change of the form; human-capital-intensive firms; physical-capital-intensive firms;
Conference_Titel :
Business Computing and Global Informatization (BCGIN), 2012 Second International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4469-2
DOI :
10.1109/BCGIN.2012.77