In developing countries, the experiences of government-led development through heavy loans and grants from international donors have added to records of failure because of centralized system of plan formulation and its implementation through complex bureaucratic structure of government agencies. Realizing the inevitability of active participation of the local communities, the international dono...

The aims underlying this study are to analyse to what extent the generic human capital and specific human capital of the nascent entrepreneur influences the creation of the innovative firm. The results obtained through logistic regression show the first evidence, with regard to the creation of innovative firms, that more than a higher level of education or professional experience it is educatio...

Identification of the strength of human capital externalities at the aggregate level is still not fully understood. The existing method may yield positive or negative externalities even if wages reflect marginal social products. We propose an approach that yields positive average human capital externalities if and only if the marginal social product of workers with above-average human capital e...

in the knowledge-based era knowledge management (km) is considered as the primary task of organizations that strive to utilize of their intellectual capitals effectively. hence it is vital to understand carefully the appropriate contexts and enablers of knowledge management practices. human- social factors are among most influential factors that their effects are as important as structural and ...

Purpose – On the health care industry, the paper aims to study the effects of intellectual capital, identify using an input-process-output concept of human, customer, innovative and process capitals, on company performances. Design/methodology/approach – From a resource-based and intellectual capital perspective, the structural path model is applied to financial data to analyze the six-value cr...

Resource-based theory views the firm as a bundle of resources administrated and coordinated by managers. We introduce the theoretical lens of Penrose effect to IS research, which refers to the fact that finite managerial capacities will suffer if the complexity of resource coordination is high. Therefore, although investment in knowledge-related assets, such as information technology (IT) and h...