Panel data or pseudo panels for longitudinal research? Cross-national comparisons using the example of firms' training spend

IF 1.6 Q2 Business, Management and Accounting Evidence-based HRM-A Global Forum for Empirical Scholarship Pub Date : 2020-12-04 DOI:10.1108/ebhrm-08-2020-0106
M. Brookes, C. Brewster, Cigdem Gedikli, O. Yılmaz
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PurposeThe evolution of firm level practices over time has always been a keen area of interest for management scholars. However, in comparison to other social scientists, particularly economists, the relative dearth of firm level panel data sets has restricted the methodological options for exploring inter-temporal changes.Design/methodology/approachThis paper applies a pseudo panel methodology to investigate the evolution of training spend at the firm level over time.FindingsThe analysis is framed within a varieties of capitalism lens and by adopting a more meaningful approach to examining changes over time it leads us to question some of the “truisms” linked to firms expected behaviours within different national institutional frameworks.Research limitations/implicationsAs with any large-scale quantitative analysis, it would always benefits from a larger number of observations and/or a longer time period, in this instance access to annual data rather than 4 or 5 year intervals would have been helpful.Practical implicationsBy adopting a different, and more appropriate, approach to analysing existing cross-sectional data over time this empirical research helps to achieve a deeper understanding of the complex issues that influence decision making at the firm level.Social implicationsAt the firm level, in line with the practical implications above, this will enable decision makers to achieve a deeper understanding of the evolution of the external context in which they operate and the likely influence of that evolution within their own organisation.Originality/valueThis approach enables a more meaningful exploration of inter-temporal changes in situations where longitudinal data does not exist.
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纵向研究的面板数据还是伪面板?以企业培训支出为例进行跨国比较
公司层面实践的演变一直是管理学者感兴趣的一个领域。然而,与其他社会科学家,特别是经济学家相比,企业层面面板数据集的相对缺乏限制了探索跨期变化的方法选择。设计/方法/方法本文采用伪面板方法来调查公司层面培训支出随时间的演变。该分析是在多种资本主义视角下进行的,通过采用更有意义的方法来研究随着时间的变化,它使我们质疑一些与不同国家制度框架下企业预期行为相关的“真理”。与任何大规模定量分析一样,它总是受益于大量的观测和/或更长的时间周期,在这种情况下,获得年度数据而不是4或5年的间隔数据将会有所帮助。通过采用一种不同的、更合适的方法来分析现有的横断面数据,本实证研究有助于更深入地理解影响企业决策的复杂问题。社会影响在公司层面,与上述实际影响一致,这将使决策者能够更深入地了解他们所处的外部环境的演变,以及这种演变在他们自己的组织内可能产生的影响。原创性/价值在没有纵向数据的情况下,这种方法可以对跨时间变化进行更有意义的探索。
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