Modelling the creation of value from intellectual capital: a Portuguese banking perspective

International Journal of Knowledge and Learning

Volumn 3, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 266-280

  do Rosário Cabrita, Maria ^a   Landeiro de Vaz, Jorge ^b   Bontis, Nick ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

banking; human capital; intellectual capital; organisational value; partial least squares; PLS; Portugal; relational capital; structural capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 64349087092     PISSN: 17411009     EISSN: 17411017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijkl.2007.015555     Document Type: Article

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