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Role of Intellectual Capital on Firm Performance (Evidence from Iranian Companies)
Role of Intellectual Capital on Firm Performance (Evidence from Iranian Companies)

Author(s): Bahram Meihami, Zeinab Varmaghani, Hussein Meihami
Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: SciPress Ltd.
Keywords: Intellectual capital; Innovation capital; Value creation; Firm performance

Summary/Abstract: Intellectual capital for companies, particularly manufacturing firms in the third millennium can be considered as a competitive advantage. The purpose of the research is to examine the role of innovation capital in the creation of value for business organizations. Intellectual capital (IC) disclosure has been receiving an increasing amount of attention among the companies around the world such as Australian companies, Italian companies and others. This is due to the new economy driven which is knowledge-based economy where value creation become one of the crucial issues in the world and tends to be based on intangible rather than tangible assets. In this study, a questionnaire was distributed among manufacturing companies have tried to collect statistical information . Questionnaire was divided between manufacturing firms and financial operations managers.The result shows that a company’s IC in general has a The significant positive impact on its financial and market performance.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 43-50
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English