Intellectual capital and business performance in the pharmaceutical sector of Jordan

Management Decision

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 105-131

  Sharabati, Abdel Aziz Ahmad ^a   Jawad, Shawqi Naji ^a   Bontis, Nick ^b  

^a AMMAN ARAB UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Business performance; Human capital; Intellectual capital; Jordan; Manufacturing systems; Pharmaceuticals industry

Indexed keywords

EID: 76449092224     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741011014481     Document Type: Article

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