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https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-22623| Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
| Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
| Title: | We need to learn how to love digital learning ‘again’ : European SMEs response to COVID-19 digital learning needs |
| Authors: | Nachmias, Stefanos Hubschmid-Vierheilig, Elena |
| et. al: | No |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13678868.2021.1893503 10.21256/zhaw-22623 |
| Published in: | Human Resource Development International |
| Volume(Issue): | 24 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Page(s): | 123 |
| Pages to: | 132 |
| Issue Date: | 2021 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Taylor & Francis |
| ISSN: | 1367-8868 1469-8374 |
| Language: | English |
| Subject (DDC): | 658.3: Human resource management |
| Abstract: | Digital transformation has become an increasingly hot topic and has posed questions around the role of Human Resource Development (HRD) moving forward. Since March 2020, the Covid-19 virus, national restrictions and social distance have affected our daily activities and changed every aspect of our life. The virus has brought with it the challenge of managing work and social interactions remotely. Using digital technology to do our jobs was hard. It was new but it was, and still is, intense. Everyone should agree with the point that it has certainly affected our ability to work with short and long-term impact on how tasks are designed and how people can contribute to work. The scope of this review is simply to assess and evaluate the impact of COVID-19 towards European Small and Medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), how they could emerge from the pandemic and to what extent they have the skills and abilities to fully utilize digital learning in the future. SMEs represent the backbone of the European economy as they account for 99% of businesses with 24 million SMEs in the European Union. They generate more than half of the EU’s gross domestic product while they employed about 100 million workers before the pandemic. National restrictions have more severe effect on SMEs (OECD 2020) as they have less capital, fewer assets and lower productivity. However, we know that SMEs find ways to manage the risks which threaten to disrupt essential processes and services (Gibb and Buchanan 2006). The International Labour Organisation (2020) argues that sustaining business operations will be particularly difficult for SMEs, therefore investment in digital skills and learning is the only way to overcome these implications in the future (Li, Ghosh, and Nachmias 2020). |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/22623 |
| Fulltext version: | Accepted version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Restricted until: | 2022-09-12 |
| Departement: | School of Management and Law |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute for Organizational Viability (IOV) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen School of Management and Law |
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Nachmias, S., & Hubschmid-Vierheilig, E. (2021). We need to learn how to love digital learning ‘again’ : European SMEs response to COVID-19 digital learning needs. Human Resource Development International, 24(2), 123–132. https://doi.org/10.1080/13678868.2021.1893503
Nachmias, S. and Hubschmid-Vierheilig, E. (2021) ‘We need to learn how to love digital learning ‘again’ : European SMEs response to COVID-19 digital learning needs’, Human Resource Development International, 24(2), pp. 123–132. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13678868.2021.1893503.
S. Nachmias and E. Hubschmid-Vierheilig, “We need to learn how to love digital learning ‘again’ : European SMEs response to COVID-19 digital learning needs,” Human Resource Development International, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 123–132, 2021, doi: 10.1080/13678868.2021.1893503.
NACHMIAS, Stefanos und Elena HUBSCHMID-VIERHEILIG, 2021. We need to learn how to love digital learning ‘again’ : European SMEs response to COVID-19 digital learning needs. Human Resource Development International. 2021. Bd. 24, Nr. 2, S. 123–132. DOI 10.1080/13678868.2021.1893503
Nachmias, Stefanos, and Elena Hubschmid-Vierheilig. 2021. “We Need to Learn How to Love Digital Learning ‘Again’ : European SMEs Response to COVID-19 Digital Learning Needs.” Human Resource Development International 24 (2): 123–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/13678868.2021.1893503.
Nachmias, Stefanos, and Elena Hubschmid-Vierheilig. “We Need to Learn How to Love Digital Learning ‘Again’ : European SMEs Response to COVID-19 Digital Learning Needs.” Human Resource Development International, vol. 24, no. 2, 2021, pp. 123–32, https://doi.org/10.1080/13678868.2021.1893503.
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