Firms' financial performance from intellectual capital and capital structure perspectives: A comparative analysis into three industries in Malaysia / Hapsah@Kalthom S. Mohammad

The world's economy has changed from an industrial economy, in which economic growth was determined by the employment of physical resources, towards a knowledge-based economy in which wealth creation is associated with the development and maintenance of intangible resources particularly knowled...

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Main Author: S. Mohammad, Hapsah@Kalthom
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Language:English
Published: Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM 2018
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description The world's economy has changed from an industrial economy, in which economic growth was determined by the employment of physical resources, towards a knowledge-based economy in which wealth creation is associated with the development and maintenance of intangible resources particularly knowledge to create competitive advantages. The transition towards a knowledge-based economy is changing the business model and firms operating in the knowledge-based economy require interaction with their environment in order to sustain their business. Since knowledge is a source of competitive advantage, therefore, firms must employ a mechanism to identify, measure and manage it. Knowledge in firms is embedded in their employees, structural design, interaction with their environment and collectively they are referred to as intellectual capital. Due to the importance of intellectual capital capabilities as a driver of growth, more studies involving multiple industries and a model that can better reflect and measure the components of intellectual capital such as MVAIC are required. Meanwhile, capital structure decision as to how do firms choose their capital structure to finance their operations and how does the choice of capital structure financing affect the financial performance of the firm will also be examined in this study and to investigate the role of firm size in moderating the above relationships...
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spelling uitm-220402018-11-09T09:09:26Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22040/ Firms' financial performance from intellectual capital and capital structure perspectives: A comparative analysis into three industries in Malaysia / Hapsah@Kalthom S. Mohammad S. Mohammad, Hapsah@Kalthom Management. Industrial Management Costs. Industrial costs Cost effectiveness The world's economy has changed from an industrial economy, in which economic growth was determined by the employment of physical resources, towards a knowledge-based economy in which wealth creation is associated with the development and maintenance of intangible resources particularly knowledge to create competitive advantages. The transition towards a knowledge-based economy is changing the business model and firms operating in the knowledge-based economy require interaction with their environment in order to sustain their business. Since knowledge is a source of competitive advantage, therefore, firms must employ a mechanism to identify, measure and manage it. Knowledge in firms is embedded in their employees, structural design, interaction with their environment and collectively they are referred to as intellectual capital. Due to the importance of intellectual capital capabilities as a driver of growth, more studies involving multiple industries and a model that can better reflect and measure the components of intellectual capital such as MVAIC are required. Meanwhile, capital structure decision as to how do firms choose their capital structure to finance their operations and how does the choice of capital structure financing affect the financial performance of the firm will also be examined in this study and to investigate the role of firm size in moderating the above relationships... Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM 2018 Book Section PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22040/1/ABS_HAPSAH%40KALTHOM%20S.%20MOHAMMAD%20TDRA%20VOL%2014%20IGS%2018.pdf S. Mohammad, Hapsah@Kalthom (2018) Firms' financial performance from intellectual capital and capital structure perspectives: A comparative analysis into three industries in Malaysia / Hapsah@Kalthom S. Mohammad. (2018) In: The Doctoral Research Abstracts. IGS Biannual Publication, 14 . Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM, Shah Alam.
spellingShingle Management. Industrial Management
Costs. Industrial costs
Cost effectiveness
S. Mohammad, Hapsah@Kalthom
Firms' financial performance from intellectual capital and capital structure perspectives: A comparative analysis into three industries in Malaysia / Hapsah@Kalthom S. Mohammad
title Firms' financial performance from intellectual capital and capital structure perspectives: A comparative analysis into three industries in Malaysia / Hapsah@Kalthom S. Mohammad
title_full Firms' financial performance from intellectual capital and capital structure perspectives: A comparative analysis into three industries in Malaysia / Hapsah@Kalthom S. Mohammad
title_fullStr Firms' financial performance from intellectual capital and capital structure perspectives: A comparative analysis into three industries in Malaysia / Hapsah@Kalthom S. Mohammad
title_full_unstemmed Firms' financial performance from intellectual capital and capital structure perspectives: A comparative analysis into three industries in Malaysia / Hapsah@Kalthom S. Mohammad
title_short Firms' financial performance from intellectual capital and capital structure perspectives: A comparative analysis into three industries in Malaysia / Hapsah@Kalthom S. Mohammad
title_sort firms' financial performance from intellectual capital and capital structure perspectives: a comparative analysis into three industries in malaysia / hapsah@kalthom s. mohammad
topic Management. Industrial Management
Costs. Industrial costs
Cost effectiveness
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/22040/