In today’s knowledge economy the tangible assets like intellectual capital is a foundation of sustainable growth and competitive lead. Corporations are paying more focus on value creation through these tangible assets. Better organizational performance can be ensured through effective management of firm’s intellectual capital. The main rationale of this study is to highlight the interconnection...

This paper analyses the influence of the capital market on the labour market. Especially the impact of start-up financing on the structure of unemployment is of interest. We use a crosscountry panel data analysis to examine how venture capital investment influences disaggregate unemployment. As we expected, venture capital investment has different influences on sectoral-, educationaland occupat...

This paper aims to clarify the association between various social capital components at the municipal level (community social capital) and two quality-of-life factors at the individual level [individual self-rated life satisfaction and self-rated health (SRH)] based on data from a nationwide social capital survey that the authors carried out in 2013 in Japan (N = 3406 in 99 municipalities). The...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate prospectively the associations between depression and cognitive social capital (social trust, sense of belonging, mutual aid) and structural social capital (volunteer work and community participation). METHODS This was a prospective study that was carried out in the USA. The participants were a nationally representative sample of 724 English-speaking non-institu...

background: moving toward progress in every country starts from universities. intellectual capital is a very strong theory that all knowledge-based organizations can utilize to improve their efficacy and productivity.  the purpose of this research was to evaluate the structural equation modeling of knowledge conversion process upon intellectual capital components in public universities of isfah...

in this study the association between social capital and entrepreneurial locus of control among small and medium-sized enterprises’ managers is evaluated. the innovation of this study is theorizing and clarifying the role of social capital and its dimensions in fostering managers' internal locus of control. internal locus of control is one of the most frequently mentioned personal characte...

BACKGROUND A national cross-sectional survey was conducted in Japan. This is because the growing recognition of the social determinants of health has stimulated research on social capital and mental health. In recent years, systematic reviews have found that social capital may be a useful factor in the prevention of mental illness. Despite these studies, evidence on the association between soci...

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...

Online networks can be construed as social networks in which people engage in interactions, build relationships, share information, and request and extend assistance to each other using electronic communication technologies. Is social capital embedded in online networks? How is such social capital mobilized (i.e., shared)? What structural properties of cyber networks are associated with mobiliz...