this paper investigates the effect of foreign trade and human capital on economic growth using pooling data for the oic member countries over the period 1980-2003. for this purpose, the soderbom-teal (2003) growth model is re-specified with the variables such as growth of manufacturing exports, manufacturing imports, human capital, labor force and physical capital. the empirical results indicat...

this study aimed at investigating the effect of intellectual capital and organizational performance on service quality. research method was descriptive and correlation, structural equation modeling. the population consisted of all 219 male and female staff of sport and youth general offices in west azerbaijan province. 180 subjects were selected as the sample by purposive non-random sampling me...

by the more advances in science and knowledge, the role of staff and human relations (hr) becomes more evident in the progress of the organization and the community. social capital and intellectual capital are the two subjects that in the recent two decades have been considered and their formative roles in organizational development and performance have been confirmed. this study examines the r...

undoubtedly, the capability and core competencies of employees help to achieve organization goals. consequently, organizations increase organizational learning capability with the help of intellectual capital, thereby providing improvement of productivity. the current study aims to explain the impact of intellectual capital on labor productivity, considering the mediation of organizational lear...

abstract this study aims to explore the impact of human resources investment on competitive advantage that incorporates human capital as a mediator variable. for this purpose a questionnaire was designed to collect data of the research variables. validity and reliability of measurement instruments was obtained using confirmatory factor analysis. questionnaire was then distributed among a sample...

The aim of this paper is to empirically investigate the effect of Intellectual Capital (IC) and its components on financial performance of Iranian banks accepted in Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). The financial performances were measured by return on equity (ROE), return on assets (ROA), assets turnover (ATO), and book to market ratio (MB). This research covers 14 banks listed in TSE over the peri...

the objective of this research is to explore the effect of international outsourcing on economic growth in asia-pacific countries. accordingly, a panel regression model based on soderbom and teal (2003) is estimated using data of the considered countries over the period 1995-2006. in addition to international outsourcing, the model includes human capital, labor force and physical capital as the...