Purpose
This study aims to investigate the effect of intellectual capital components on firms’ performance, and also examines the influence of the mediating role of family management on such a ...relationship.
Design/methodology/approach
The hypotheses are tested using structural equation modeling for a sample of 46 Jordanian service listed firms during 2014–2019.
Findings
The results indicate that intellectual capital efficiency is a key factor that enables firms to achieve higher financial performance and higher market value. Human capital efficiency has a significant positive effect on firms’ profitability as measured by return on assets and earnings per share. No evidence is shown to support that family management has a mediating role on the relationship between intellectual capital and firms’ performance.
Practical implications
The results indicate strong evidence of the important role of intellectual capital on firm performance. Accordingly, this study recommends that the managers of service firms should continue to enhance and improve the components of intellectual capital, especially investing more in the competencies and capabilities of employees, including their skills, education and training programs to achieve competitive advantage and ensure continued success in the future, and investors to pay special attention to the components of intellectual capital to predict the performance of the firm and be able to choose the best investment opportunities.
Originality/value
This study provides additional insights into the literature of both intellectual capital and family businesses by analyzing data from an emerging market.
Purpose
The present study aims to explore knowledge sharing to evoke affective commitment of Gen Y employees through competency development.
Design/methodology/approach
The research uses ...cross-sectional survey to collect primary data. A questionnaire is developed based on extensive review of literature. A sample was obtained from Gen Y employees (born between 1980 and 2000) working in software organizations in India. In total, 582 completely filled, usable questionnaires were obtained.
Findings
Results indicate that knowledge sharing has a positive effect on competency development of Gen Y employees, which in turn, positively predicts affective commitment. Furthermore, this would result in the enhancement of employee competencies and eventually, the generation of affective commitment.
Research limitations/implications
This study was limited to the software development professionals working in Indian organizations Therefore, researchers should test the research model further in other industries preferably in a different country.
Practical implications
The more knowledge assets are shared in the organization, the higher the enhancement of employee competencies will become. To evoke emotional attachment of Gen Y employees, an organization must implement learning and development interventions
Originality/value
This study contributes to knowledge management literature, particularly knowledge sharing by exploring its possible linkage with employee attitudinal outcomes through empirical data. This also happens to be an empirical study to investigate Gen Y employees’ commitment in Indian context.
Education is considered the primary driver of sustainable development. Teachers play a critical role in the conjunction of ideal, designed, and actual teaching and learning experience delivery. ...Successful education plays a crucial role in accomplishing the UN Sustainable Development goals (SDGs). Therefore, this research focused on the better preparation of teachers to deliver high-quality education for achieving SDGs in Qatar. To this end, this study investigated teachers’ development needs, including their professional preparation, empowerment, and assessment, by employing semi-structured interviews in selected schools. In summary, the findings show a lack of professional development (PD) opportunities, and the current PD approaches have no direction, purpose, or progress. The results also demonstrate that objective and customized assessment methods, a clear and robust career roadmap, and career promotions accordingly would increase teachers’ motivation for their, and thus students’, development. In addition, only a few teachers are aware of the SDGs and their connections with education. Therefore, there is a need to raise their level of understanding and motivation by preparing them with the right set of skills and tools and paying attention to the teachers’ development as a whole at school, society, and policy levels.
The production, diffusion and preservation of knowledge are the main goals of universities, which are critical nodes for mediating intellectual capital. In recent years, 3D printing (additive ...manufacturing) technologies are emerging as a possible disruptive or transformative force in the knowledge economy and by extension the material economy as consumers are given the affordance of materializing information into real-world objects. To understand the role universities will play in this potential convergence of the material and knowledge economies, this paper surveys current levels of involvement of tertiary institutions in 3D printing. The paper projects how the materialization of data will affect a range of social dynamics for creators-cum-consumers at different scales: community, region and nation-state and applies case studies to the multilevel perspective (MLP) framework. Studies are considered in three empirical cases: Berlin in Germany, Lancashire in the United Kingdom, and the United States. The research indicates that the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII) ‘America Makes’ Program is a top-down knowledge dissemination program for 3D printing. In contrast, the UK Lancaster University Product Development Unit (LPDU) is a 3D-printing value-network, which has developed organically over a decade of operation. Fablab Berlin is a local initiative loosely coupled with industry and tertiary education providers. The paper proposes a future-oriented conceptual framework to capture a variety of present-day university engagements with additive manufacturing in terms of intellectual capital.
•An empirically-informed link between 3D printing and the third mission of universities•Operationalization of the multilevel perspective (MLP) for multi-scalar case studies•Scales of 3D printing invoke differing intensities of knowledge transfer in the triple helix.•A university-centred optic on a socio-technical transition involving 3D printing
Due to the far-reaching nature of the Internet and the rapid development of global information. Tourists and learners of different time and space can participate in sightseeing activities through the ...Internet, resulting in changes in sightseeing styles, which not only change the presentation of knowledge, but also change the way of learning information exchange, and the sightseeing environment also. Therefore, the real environment of the traditional classroom is extended to the networked virtual world of learning. As far as users are concerned, the biggest difference in sightseeing websites lies in the learning mode provided by the entire network sightseeing. However, it can be roughly divided into two different types: (1) established by the enterprise organization and (2) required to be charged. Courses and websites can be established by school units. Online tourism is a new type of education derived from the digital revolution and 4IR. The vigorous development in the country is also an important way for the government to achieve the goals of "lifelong learning" and its "knowledge economy" policy. The industry believes that the most important projects it must be involved in are: (a) establishing its own leading position in online tourism expertise (b) using learner feedback as a basis for improving network tourism (c) continuing research and development to expand the capabilities of the network sightseeing platform; scholars believe that the most Important projects are: (a) the establishment of a school network sightseeing unit (b) to improve the interaction between the tourism network and the visitors (c) to provide a variety of course contents. However, in all the problems and difficulties faced, the industry believes that the most important difficulty is to make the public see the digital changes as popular events and accept the way to identify online tourism; scholars believe that the related technology of network tourism needs to be strengthened.
Emerging research suggests that planners and policy makers should explore the expanded role Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) plays in promoting innovation and economic growth. TOD station ...characteristics including accessibility, walkability, density, and mixed uses may create environments beneficial for creative and knowledge industries. However, the evidence linking place to productivity, as measured by firm sales volume is lacking. Using cluster analysis and Propensity Score Matching for national-level data, this research tests these relationships. Findings indicate that firms located in dense, mixed use, and walkable TODs with higher levels of activity experience increased sales. Hence, TOD and knowledge-based economic development strategies should be planned in tandem to maximize outcomes.
The abrupt introduction of information and communication technologies leads to global shifts in the world economy, society, labor market and other areas. Ukraine demonstrates ~26% annual growth rate ...of IT services. Nowadays the IT industry ranks third in terms of exports of services. In 2020, the country’s exports of IT services exceeded $ 5 billion. However, as the study showed, the growth rate of the information and communication industry is insufficient to reach a level close to the level of the world’s leading economies. Moreover, there are trends that are dangerous for the development of the economy and society. The analysis showed that in the formation of a global information society there are risks of technological and socio-economic gap not only between countries but also between generations and social strata within countries and this is a threat to the development of Ukraine’s economy and society. Part of the population is not provided with adequate conditions to increase their own potential, which is the main driver of economic development. This is the basis for the formation of the «digital» gap and slows down social and economic reforms. The systematization of the main features of the global economy revealed inconsistencies in the development of information technology in Ukraine. According to objective indicators, it is analyzed how in Ukraine data are published and used for accountability, innovation, economic and social development. It is indicated that there are limiting factors for the formation, support and disclosure of data. This leads to restraint of the global movement of development in the country — when information and knowledge lead to the direct formation of new information and new knowledge. As the level of development and implementation of information and communication technologies in Ukraine still lags far behind the leading countries, this has a negative impact on the development of the economy, institutional structures and society.
In connection with the identified problems, the need to develop a state strategy for the development of the information society and the use of information and IT are indicated.
Keywords: globalization, IT-technologies, ICT-technologies, knowledge economy, information society, knowledge society.
JEL Classification F62, O14, O33
Formulas: 0; fig.: 0; tabl.: 3; bibl.: 17.
The totality of modern geopolitical challenges and threats in the new information reality can be characterized as hybrid warfare, which includes a wide range of actions aimed at destruction of all ...spheres of social life of the rival state. Hybrid wars are now becoming the main instrument of geopolitical confrontation, which actualizes the search for counteraction to such threats. The widespread use of asymmetric crisis management has become an integral part of the practice of diplomacy, the basis for the effective implementation of the national security strategy of any sovereign state. The relevance of the article is due to the fact that hybrid wars today have become an integral part of new geopolitical realities. Asymmetric strategies, together with preventive diplomacy, are extremely relevant instruments of world politics. However, the theory and practice of an asymmetric approach in international relations, despite its relevance, has been developed rather fragmentarily, especially in matters of classification of asymmetric strategies. The main aim of the article is the analysis the role of strategies in the conditions of the modern hybrid war and to figure out the role of knowledge component in the formation of the world competitive leaders. The methodological basis of the article is the methods and forms of scientific knowledge adopted in domestic science, such as system approaches, comparative and synthesis methods, methods of abstract logical evaluation, methods of detailing, groupings and generalizations, experts’ evaluations. The results: the reasons of the hybrid war were revealed, the specific features of crisis strategies were presented, the influence of the knowledge component on the competitiveness of the countries was proved, disruptive technologies on the competitiveness of the national economies were proved, the specific features of the disruptive technologies were presented, the effective asymmetric strategies were underlined.
Keywords: hybrid war, strategies, knowledge economy, competition, global development, matrix of initial data.
JEL Classification D83, J24, O30
Formulas: 0; tabl.: 3; fig.: 0; bibl.: 15.
Government reports and documents claim that building a high skill society is critical for national success in China. In this paper, eight policies in relation to the government's espoused priorities ...of upskilling are examined. Applying the principles of critical policy analysis, the paper aims to expose the ideological presuppositions made in these policies. The findings in this paper reveal that the Chinese government may have focused on upgrading the credentials, rather than the actual skills that these credentials signal, thus reinforced forms of consciousness that maintain the academic-focus, credential-driven hegemony. The new policies have vigorously invested in the 'model schools', yet further excluding non-model schools and the marginalised learners. This investment, emphasising the 'supply-side' of skills provision, has also led to a more fragmented connection between the training system and industry. The promotion of 'entrepreneurial talent training', with an intention of enhancing young people's employability and building a knowledge-based economy, may act as a technique for 'self-government' under the influence of a neoliberal ideology. The responsibility of skill acquisition may have shifted to individual students, who will encounter increased precarity on their routes into work. Drawing on Gramsci's concept of hegemonic power, the paper highlights China's national skills policies may further facilitate the reproduction of current forms of inequality in training as well as contribute to construct and manage the neoliberal subjects required by the Reform Era.
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