scholarly journals Perception of Intellectual Capital and Its Impact on Business Sustainability: Evidence from Small, Medium, and Large Enterprises

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-50
Author(s):  
Elwira Gross-Gołacka ◽  
Marta Kusterka-Jefmańska ◽  
Paulina Spałek ◽  
Bartłomiej Jefmański

The main goal of this article is to analyze the level of differentiation of awareness and knowledge among managers of small, medium and large enterprises in the scope of the essence and meaning of intellectual capital as well as the influence of its elements on the sustainable development of enterprises in Poland. Intellectual capital is perceived as a key resource of an enterprise. It is also one of the most valuable resources of an enterprise, which enables its sustainable development. It is critical base of organization’s innovative and strategic sustainability. This article is based around the results of a survey conducted in 2019 among 1,067 enterprises operating in Poland. For the purposes of the verification of the statistical hypothesis, the classical chi-squared test of independence has been applied along with the analysis of variations for fuzzy numbers (FANOVA) with an assumed level of significance α = 0.05. The assessment of the influence of the elements of intellectual capital on the sustainable development of enterprises has been conducted with the application of fuzzy conversion scales. In fuzzy conversion scales, points are most often expressed as triangular or trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. The conducted research indicates a difference between theory and practice in the field of intellectual capital management among enterprises in Poland. On the one hand managers declare awareness of the importance of the influence of intellectual capital on the development of enterprises in Poland, whereas on the other hand, a significant majority of them state that they have not implemented an intellectual capital management strategy at their enterprises and neither identify nor measure this capital or its elements.

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-28
Author(s):  
Liliia CHERNYSHOVA ◽  
Olena OLEINIKOVA ◽  
Alina BOIKO

The article is devoted to the disclosure of the essence of the concept of "intellectual capital", as well as the study of the structural components of the Bank's intellectual capital. The chosen topic is urgent and relevant to the realities of banking business, which is explained by the need for qualitative changes in the direction of ensuring the sustainable development of modern credit institutions. The purpose of the paper is to systematize the research of various scientists regarding the interpretation of the scientific category "intellectual capital", improve its structuring and develop a mechanism for managing it in modern economic realities. The article offers a General scheme of the Bank's intellectual capital management mechanism, provides elements of its strategic management system, and develops recommendations to Bank management on effective strategic management of a certain strategic banking component. It is also noted that in modern banking accounting of our country there are certain shortcomings in the reflection of intellectual capital in the reporting, which significantly complicates the process of monitoring it. To some extent, this is due to the imperfection of determining the value of intangible assets. This approach to managing the intellectual capital of a banking institution will help to identify and solve many internal problems of credit institutions, and its use along with other assets will allow banking organizations to obtain real competitive advantages and ensure a dominant position in the market.


10.12737/535 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Кибанов ◽  
Ardalon Kibanov

The essence of theories related to personnel management is considered in this article. This theories’ development is demonstrated since the middle of the XIX century to the beginning of the XXI century: the theories’ postulates of working with people and the expected results were changing. Together with the theories the practice of personnel management was developing: objects of management, personnel’s dominating needs, organization tasks, and leading trends of personnel management were changing. For almost two centuries the content of personnel management processes has undergone a significant evolution: from staffing and staff accounting to personnel’s intellectual capital management. This evolutionary path has been described in details and justified step by step on the example of world’s leading countries, including Russia, in the article.


Author(s):  
A. M. Asaliev ◽  
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L. N. Orlova ◽  

The article examines the theory and practice of using intellectual capital as a source of development and formation of competitive advantages of entrepreneurial structures. The relevance of the study is associated with the overall increasing degree of use of intangible benefits that have a huge potential for growth and transformation. It can also be noted that against the background of the exhaustion of the resource model of development, intellectual capital is becoming an intensive growth factor. The aim of the study is to determine the possibilities for the development of entrepreneurial structures through the use of intellectual capital, as well as to identify the risks associated with intellectual entrepreneurial activity. The methodological basis of the study is the scientific works of famous scientists in the field of the knowledge economy, intellectual capital, digital economy, as well as the authors’ own early research. The main research methods were the methods of logical analysis, generalization, structuring, as well as the method of heat maps as a quantitative and qualitative method for assessing the risks of using intellectual capital, supplemented by expert and statistical methods. The empirical base of the study was data from open information resources, analytical agencies, and statistical materials. The subject of the research is the economic relations arising in the process of formation and use of intellectual capital by entrepreneurial structures. Particular attention in the article is paid to the theoretical and practical aspects of embedding the risk management methodology — ERM (Enterprise Risk Management) into the system of strategic management of intellectual capital, identification of the «red flags» of the organization’s business processes. The novelty of the presented research lies in determining the expanded structure of intellectual capital, the advantages of using intellectual capital for business structures, and highlighting the main stages of risk-based management of intellectual capital. The practical application of a risk-based approach to intellectual capital management is illustrated by the construction of a heat map of risks, which allows highlighting the most significant risks associated with the formation of employee competencies, stable trust relationships between the entrepreneurial structure, its counterparties and investors, and the state. As conclusions and recommendations, the authors present the directions of increasing the competitive advantages of a large entrepreneurial structure by integrating intellectual capital management processes into the development strategy and levelling the risks of its use.


2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert G. Isaac ◽  
Irene M. Herremans ◽  
Theresa J.B. Kline

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (40) ◽  
pp. 73-86
Author(s):  
Sergii Bardash ◽  
Tetiana Osadcha

Research relevance lies in the irreversibility of course choice for embodiment of the sustainable development concept. However, a pluralism of opinions, concerning the implementation of model definition of this concept, as well as the priority tasks for realization of its constituents significantly decelerates the socio-economic development of Ukraine. An inadequate scientific research of the sustainable development problems on a microeconomic level generates the reduction of expected management results and the degree of progressive changes at the level of individual business units. The role and transformation of accounting science, necessary for the implementation of the sustainable development concept, are not fully disclosed. The research purpose and tasks are to determine the accounting component of sustainable development concept on the basis of the rent theory, to outline the directions of rent accounting development under the following factors influence: globalization and transformation of the ownership institution and scientific research activation on this basis, aimed at forming the theoretical and methodological baseline of rent accounting ‘as an additional income. The methodology of the research includes general scientific methods of cognition the necessity and invariant implementation of the sustainable development concept, its constituents allocation and specification; dialectical method for cognition the economic content of rent; a comparative analysis of the definition differences, formed at different stages and forms of realization of economic relations; modeling method for determining the direction and logic of the rent accounting development under the influence of such factors, as globalization and ownership institution transformation. It has been established that realization of sustainable development concept should take place with understanding of the interaction mechanisms of economic, social and environmental components. These generate new ideas about the basic socialization mechanisms and social development of human, external influences on the environment and cost estimation. The interconnection of the constituent of sustainable development concepts and the economic, social and ecological system as a whole is the basis for the theory and practice development of accounting. The accounting information creates preconditions for assessing the achievement and forecasting of further sustainable development of the economy as a separate economic entity, region, country, and the world as a whole. It has been established that the existence of discussion aspects in the treatment of rent and failure to recognize the last object of accounting should be considered as one of the essential factors in accelerating the implementation of the sustainable development concept. Bearing the results of research in mind, the development of a conceptual approach to rent accounting, as an additional entity income, should be based on the recognition the rent as a management object, that requires adequate information support for users’ requests from the accounting system side, based on the systematic development of the theoretical, methodological and organizational-practical regulations of rent accounting. The practical value of research is to formulate a methodological provision of rent accounting, which will further improve an active and passive income distribution of relation participants in the economic sphere.  The obtained scientific results will form the prospects for further research, which will lay in proving the need for the transformation of the property institute in the post-Soviet countries, to determine the models of rent relations between different parties in the field of economic relations, as well as to determine the rent-forming factors of production for the development of the rent assessing methodology.


Author(s):  
София Горбунова ◽  
Sofia Gorbunova

<span>The article discusses the principles of education for sustainable development and examples of their implementation in the context of the ecological culture formation. The subject of the study is environmental education for sustainable development. The aim of this research is to formulate the principles of education for sustainable development and to show the ways of their practical implementation. The research uses the comparative approach with elements of hypothetical-deductive analysis. As a result of the study, a set of interrelated principles determining education for sustainable development was defined: continuity, inclusiveness, interdisciplinarity, integration, unity of theory and practice. The results of this study can be used in educational practice in the creation and implementation of curricula and courses, as methodological recommendations for the work of volunteer organizations and educational environmental activities. The results can be used in the sustainable development programs designed by the administrative authorities. Environmental education is an important tool for implementing the concept of sustainable development. Thus, the outlined educational principles should become the basis of educational practices and technologies aimed at the formation of ecological culture and the ecologization of consciousness.</span>


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