Aim-To test the effect of intellectual capital management on organizational competitive advantage in Egyptian hospitals. MethodThis study is a cross-sectional analytical study. The study was conducted in two hospitals (El-Nozha International Hospital and El-Demerdash Hospital). Study subjects consisted of three levels of management either nurses or physicians. (36) from El Nozha and (70) from E...

Structural capital has been described as more hidden part of intellectual capital and organizational knowledge. In spite of more clarity regarding the indicators of human capital, the first dimension of intellectual capital, structural capital sub-dimensions and indicators have been a challenging subject in intellectual capital literature. Clarifying structural capital indicators in e-business ...

OBJECTIVE This study tested a multilevel model examining the effects of work-unit structural empowerment and social capital on perceptions of unit effectiveness and nurses' ratings of patient care quality. BACKGROUND Structural empowerment and social capital are valuable resources for staff nurses that promote work effectiveness and high-quality patient care. No studies have examined social c...

BACKGROUND Kagera is one of the 22 regions of Tanzania mainland, which has witnessed a decline in HIV prevalence during the past two decades; decreasing from 24% in 1987 to 4.7 in 2009 in the urban district of Bukoba. Access to social capital, both structural and cognitive, might have played a role in this development. The aim was to examine the association between individual structural and cog...

This study proposes a model to analyze the relationship between leadership, intellectual capital (human, structural, and relational), and their contribution to economic renewal. The study contributes to the literature and higher education institution (HEI) management, by examining empirically and in greater depth, the antecedents and determinants of this problem. This study applies variance-bas...

Intellectual capital is said to be a source of competitive advantage and there is evidence that business success can be partly explained by its intellectual capital. It is argued that the main dimensions of social capital of relevance to intellectual capital are structural, cognitive, and relational capitals because these, among other things, foster the exchange of knowledge and resources among...

successful implementation of knowledge management fororganizations requires a systematic and comprehensive perspective aboutvarious organizational factors. appropriateness of these factors and theirintegration and coordination is a vital perquisite for implementingknowledge management effectively. the primary purpose of the researchis investigating the effect of three fundamental aspects of int...

This chapter aims to examine the role of intellectual capital in order to enhance the organizational performance of airline industry in Malaysia. Five components of intellectual capital, namely human capital, customer capital, structural capital, technological capital, and spiritual capital, were used to investigate the role of intellectual capital in airline industry in Malaysia. A structured ...

the current study aims to examine the impact of psychological capital and organizational commitment on the quality of the offered services to the clients by the counter staffs of ansar bank. in this research, the theoretical model and the theories between the variables were first developed and  structural equation was used to examine research theories. ansar bank counter staffs of tehran city a...

We examine the relationship between different dimensions of the political regime in place and human capital using a two-step structural equation model. In the first step, we employ factor analysis on 16 human capital indicators to construct two new human capital measures (basic and advanced human capital). In the second step, we estimate the impact of our political variables on human capital, u...