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  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,160 Views
22 Pages

Exploring the Dimensions of Academic Human Capital: Insights into Enhancing Higher Education Environments in Egypt

  • Manuel Sousa Pereira,
  • António Cardoso,
  • Nourhan M. El Sherbiny,
  • Amândio F. C. da Silva,
  • Jorge Figueiredo and
  • Isabel Oliveira

29 January 2025

The performance of higher education institutions is significantly influenced by their academic human capital (AHC), which encompasses research competencies, dynamic capacity, working capacity, critical thinking, social capital, and external relations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,940 Views
23 Pages

The introduction of international faculties is a crucial strategy in enhancing the talent pool of Chinese universities, yet its impact on scientific research development remains underexplored. This study investigates how the presence of an internatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Higher Education Governance and Leadership in the Digital Era)
  • Article
  • Open Access
783 Views
22 Pages

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now part of accounting systems, changing the way that accounting data is handled and the quality of the financial reporting. The impact of the qualifications of accountants and the adoption of AI has been studied separ...

(This article belongs to the Section Financial Technology and Innovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,054 Views
15 Pages

Human Capital, Networks and Segmentation in the Market for Academic Economists

  • João Ricardo Faria,
  • Franklin G. Mixon and
  • William C. Sawyer

Academic labor markets often exhibit steep hierarchies, with institutions at the top attempting to attract newly minted doctorates from similarly situated institutions in an effort to maintain or improve their reputations. Yet, despite recent researc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,443 Views
20 Pages

3 July 2024

This research examines the relationships between organizational socialization, psychological capital, and job performance within Chinese higher education institutions, with an emphasis on the implications for institutional sustainability. Utilizing a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Assessing Sustainability in Higher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,799 Views
15 Pages

13 July 2021

Previous empirical studies have found a weak nexus between the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for learning and students’ outcomes. However, this literature has not considered the role that the countries’ stock of human capita...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Economics of Education: Quantitative Methods for Educational Policies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
18,079 Views
17 Pages

The Impact of Employee Development Practices on Human Capital and Social Capital: The Mediating Contribution of Knowledge Management

  • Ahmad Adnan Al-Tit,
  • Sura Al-Ayed,
  • Abdulaziz Alhammadi,
  • Mohammad Hunitie,
  • Aktham Alsarayreh and
  • Wijdan Albassam

There is a shortage of research investigating the link between employee development practices and intellectual capital as mediated by knowledge management. The aim of the current research was to consider the influence of employee development practice...

  • Article
  • Open Access
174 Citations
73,345 Views
19 Pages

18 October 2019

Academic institutions like other business organizations strive to achieve, maintain, and sustain their competitive advantages. In this study, we examined the influence of the “strategic human resources management (HRM) practices” on the a...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,924 Views
16 Pages

Measurement of the Human Capital Applied to the Business Eco-Innovation

  • Raquel Ortega-Lapiedra,
  • Miguel Marco-Fondevila,
  • Sabina Scarpellini and
  • Fernando Llena-Macarulla

13 June 2019

Despite the growing number of studies on eco-innovation, the specific human capital applied to the eco-innovative processes by firms has not been thoroughly analyzed to date. Due to this gap, this study carries out an empirical research about the def...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge and Intellectual Capital Management for Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
102 Citations
11,361 Views
19 Pages

Social Capital, Human Capital, and Sustainability: A Bibliometric and Visualization Analysis

  • Fernando J. Garrigos-Simon,
  • M. Dolores Botella-Carrubi and
  • Tomas F. Gonzalez-Cruz

13 December 2018

Academic interest in social and human capital is growing significantly. Similarly, their relationship with sustainability is increasing, especially compared to sustainability’s relationship with natural capital and financial and economic capita...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Financial Implications of Sustainability. Linkages and Tensions between Natural, Social and Financial Capital)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,079 Views
33 Pages

Human Capital and Economic Growth in Colombia: Review

  • María Valentina Rondón-Castillo,
  • Hugo Alexander Rondón-Quintana and
  • Juan Gabriel Bastidas-Martínez

14 January 2026

Globally, human capital is recognized as a structural determinant of economic growth, with evidence of a positive, bidirectional, and significant relationship between both variables. However, in Colombia, few studies have directly measured the influe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,979 Views
11 Pages

The Determinants of Success in Entrepreneurship: A Study in the Urban Area of Ecuador

  • Dante Ayaviri-Nina,
  • Jessica Cáceres-Guzmán,
  • Gabith Miriam Quispe Fernández and
  • Alba Isabel Maldonado-Nuñez

16 March 2023

This research work aims to identify the main factors that determine the success of the enterprises established in the urban area of Riobamba (Ecuador). The research is descriptive and correlational. The field study includes a survey applied to 57 com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
10,150 Views
15 Pages

19 April 2021

Nowadays, many universities are employing metrics that are used by other countries as the focus moves towards academic management. A shared vision and collaboration is required to identify success cases. Leaders at senior and middle management need t...

(This article belongs to the Section Higher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,621 Views
18 Pages

10 September 2025

Career choices of master’s students, particularly regarding the pursuit of doctoral degrees, have received limited scholarly attention. This study examines the employment pathways and influencing factors of engineering master’s students....

  • Article
  • Open Access
380 Views
18 Pages

STEM Student Engagement with University Resources Builds Social Capital and Sense of Belonging: An Asset-Based Focus Group Study

  • Clayton M. Mazur,
  • Oddfrid T. K. Førland,
  • Ragnhild Gya,
  • Kristin Holtermann,
  • Zeljana Pavlovic,
  • Therese Romslo Saltskår,
  • Johan Kørvel Sørensen,
  • Ruben S. Thormodsæter,
  • Katrine von Bornemann and
  • Sehoya Cotner
  • + 1 author

27 September 2026

Background. Attrition from STEM programs remains a persistent challenge for universities globally. To better support student success and socio-academic integration, universities have developed a range of curricular and co-curricular resources. Much e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Positive Education: Strategies for Resilience, Well-Being, and Academic Success)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,857 Views
17 Pages

23 August 2021

Drucker’s saying that “What gets measured gets managed” is examined in the context of corporate social responsibility. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals have encouraged sustainability reporting, and a reporting tool, the Social and Hu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge Management, Digital Trust, and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Era of Social Media)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,212 Views
20 Pages

14 March 2023

Sustainable practices should include proper incentives and involve a large part of the population to achieve a significant environmental impact. Human capital is considered one of the factors that affect pro-environmental behaviours: more educated pe...

(This article belongs to the Section Waste and Recycling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
306 Citations
25,023 Views
24 Pages

Pathways towards Sustainability in Organizations: Empirical Evidence on the Role of Green Human Resource Management Practices and Green Intellectual Capital

  • Saqib Yaqoob Malik,
  • Yukun Cao,
  • Yasir Hayat Mughal,
  • Ghulam Muhammad Kundi,
  • Mudassir Hayat Mughal and
  • T. Ramayah

17 April 2020

According to the resource-based view (RBV), an organization can be viewed as a collection of human, physical and organizational resources. These resources are valuable and inimitable, and are the main source of sustainable competitive advantage and s...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,475 Views
16 Pages

9 March 2022

Populism in Germany is not a new phenomenon. For a long time, the alleged integration problems of Turkish workers in Germany have been at the center of the dominant discourse and academic studies. This paper demonstrates how ‘symbolic violence&...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Global Migration and the Rise of Populism)
  • Article
  • Open Access
784 Views
31 Pages

From AI Leadership to Innovation Efficiency: The Sequential Roles of Digital Capability Development and Human Capital Transformation

  • Vuk Mirčetić,
  • Aleksandar Ignjatović Pertini,
  • Stefan Milojević,
  • Aleksandra Vujko and
  • Ilija Životić

30 July 2026

Artificial intelligence is increasingly transforming organizational decision-making, yet the mechanisms through which AI Leadership contributes to innovation outcomes remain insufficiently understood. Drawing on dynamic capabilities theory, this stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,322 Views
21 Pages

7 August 2023

The concept of intellectual capital is increasingly recognized as one of the most important strategic assets of organizations. The significance of intellectual resources, which are now critical for every business unit, is underlined in this paper. Th...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,126 Views
21 Pages

29 September 2022

Universities have been perceived for several decades as an important development factor in the space that shapes the regional environment throughout the generation of new knowledge or technologies and the production of human capital. Our paper focuse...

(This article belongs to the Section Strategic Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,245 Views
25 Pages

28 June 2022

This study aims to examine the impact of intellectual capital and intangible value on the performance of listed non-financial firms in West Africa. The study used the Value Added Intellectual Coefficient (VAIC™) to measure intellectual capital...

  • Article
  • Open Access
617 Views
13 Pages

2 April 2026

College dropout is a global challenge due to its high prevalence and its consequences for individuals, institutions, and society, particularly in terms of institutional sustainability, inefficient use of public resources, and human capital loss. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
449 Views
18 Pages

Adaptive Strategy: The Missing Link Between Skilled Human Capital and Sustainable Performance of the United Kingdom SMEs

  • Arshad Mehmood Raja,
  • Muhammad Uzair Asif,
  • Shaju George,
  • Ali Mohsin Salim Ba Awain and
  • Muzaffar Asad

5 August 2026

Small and medium enterprises all over the world are facing challenges associated with sustainability. In the United Kingdom the government is highly concerned about sustainability and has made special laws which create several challenges. The purpose...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
140 Citations
12,994 Views
27 Pages

Intellectual Capital and Firm Performance Correlation: The Mediation Role of Innovation Capability in Malaysian Manufacturing SMEs Perspective

  • Zainab M. Aljuboori,
  • Harcharanjit Singh,
  • Hossam Haddad,
  • Nidal Mahmoud Al-Ramahi and
  • Mostafa A. Ali

24 December 2021

Understanding of intellectual capital’s influence on the firm performance has received immense interest in recent years. In this view, the impact of various intellectual capital components, including human, structural, and relational capital, o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
117 Citations
36,966 Views
14 Pages

Investing Time and Resources for Work–Life Balance: The Effect on Talent Retention

  • José-Luis Rodríguez-Sánchez,
  • Thais González-Torres,
  • Antonio Montero-Navarro and
  • Rocío Gallego-Losada

The study of work–life balance has undergone significant development in recent years as a result of changes in society and the growing importance of human resources (HR) for companies. Taking into account that human capital represents a critica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High Performance Work Practices and Kaizen: How Sustainable Are They?)
  • Article
  • Open Access
89 Citations
7,472 Views
21 Pages

17 May 2021

Farmers’ livelihood and land have been the focus of academic and political attention for a long time. In the process of rapid urbanization in China, as farmers change their livelihood strategies and livelihood capital allocation driven by economic in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land Use Transitions under Rapid Urbanization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,384 Views
15 Pages

This study empirically presents evidence of nonlinearity and heterogeneity relation between intellectual capital and risk-taking for the Vietnamese banking system. We used quantile regression methods on a data set of 30 Vietnamese banks from 2007 to...

(This article belongs to the Section Banking and Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
130 Citations
15,750 Views
26 Pages

Intellectual Capital Performance and Profitability of Banks: Evidence from Pakistan

  • Muhammad Haris,
  • HongXing Yao,
  • Gulzara Tariq,
  • Ali Malik and
  • Hafiz Mustansar Javaid

The study contributes to the existing literature on intellectual capital (IC) performance and profitability by extending evidence from Pakistan. The study examines the impact of IC performance on the profitability of Pakistani financial institutions....

(This article belongs to the Section Banking and Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,337 Views
21 Pages

30 March 2023

Innovation has become one of the most important sources of a company’s sustainable competitiveness. Therefore, every company strives continuously to improve its innovation capability. A company’s innovation capability is largely determine...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Products and Services)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,539 Views
18 Pages

Postgraduate Trends in the Training of Human Talent for Sustainable Development

  • Ángel Acevedo-Duque,
  • Tohtli Prado-Sabido,
  • Elizabeth Emperatriz García-Salirrosas,
  • Mirtha Mercedes Fernández Mantilla,
  • Velia Graciela Vera Calmet,
  • Nicolás Valle Palomino and
  • Haydee Mercedes Aguilar Armas

2 November 2022

A sustainable university must educate its academic collaborators and its interest groups, focusing on the key dimensions, such as economic growth, respect for the environment and carrying out energy saving measures, and efficiency and reuse of resour...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainable Development of Teaching Methods and Education System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
13,862 Views
23 Pages

7 June 2022

The aim of this research study is to perform an analysis of the consequences and impact of the fourth industrial revolution on the development of employability skills and to identify possible solutions to help overcome these challenges. The research...

(This article belongs to the Topic From Education and Humanities to Improve Knowledge, Society and the Digital Transformation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,896 Views
17 Pages

How Does Professional Habitus Impact Nursing Autonomy? A Hermeneutic Qualitative Study Using Bourdieu’s Framework

  • Laura Elvira Piedrahita Sandoval,
  • Jorge Sotelo-Daza,
  • Liliana Cristina Morales Viana and
  • Cesar Ivan Aviles Gonzalez

Background/Objective: In nursing practice, differences have been noted between the shared habitus acquired during academic training and professional practices within healthcare systems. In this context, nurses tend to experience an impact on their au...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
935 Views
34 Pages

The study aimed to identify the factors influencing the adoption of social media analytics (SMA) for enhanced organizational intellectual capital. It also intended to reveal the challenges linked to the effective incorporation of SMA in organizations...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Media Mining: Algorithms, Insights, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
358 Views
33 Pages

3 September 2026

This study examines the perceived competitiveness of information technology companies in Kazakhstan from a governance and innovation-ecosystem perspective. In emerging digital economies, firm competitiveness depends not only on technological capabili...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Administrative Strategies and Practices for Economic Growth and Development: Governance, Sustainability, and Digital Transformation in the 21st Century)
  • Commentary
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,959 Views
7 Pages

8 October 2022

Organizational vitality encompasses organizational mission and identity, organizational purpose and values, and employee engagement, cohesiveness, anxiety, and information sharing. Using the organizational vitality framework consisting of the followi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The 10th Anniversary of Pharmacy—Advances in Pharmacy Education and Practice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,169 Views
18 Pages

4 August 2021

There is increasing recognition worldwide of the importance of academic activities, specifically in situations of pandemics. Therefore, this study aimed to understand the effects of COVID-19 on lecturers/researchers and Ph.D. and master students who...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue In Times of Crisis: Sustainable Innovation and Performance Management in the SMEs)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,163 Views
21 Pages

19 June 2023

In the process of rapid urbanization and accelerated transformation of urban community public space structures, the optimization of community space structure and the quality of the living environment has attracted the attention of academic circles. E...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,171 Views
18 Pages

The Employment Trilemma in the European Union: Linking Academia, Industry, and Sustainability Through Dynamic Panel Evidence

  • Andrei Hrebenciuc,
  • Silvia-Elena Iacob,
  • Alexandra Constantin,
  • Maxim Cetulean and
  • Georgiana-Tatiana Bondac

3 July 2025

Amid growing concern about labour market resilience in an era of digital and green transitions, this study carries out an investigation on how academic innovation and industrial transformation jointly shape sustainable employment outcomes across EU-2...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,551 Views
13 Pages

30 September 2018

Displacement, forced migration, and resettlement in Africa have been attributed to a variety of causes and is disrupting all aspects of people’s lives, breaking social, cultural and economic networks that are critical to sustaining livelihoods....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Development at the Crossroads of Capital Flows and Migration: Leaving no One Behind?)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,638 Views
21 Pages

26 February 2025

Efficient and sustainable human resources are crucial for promoting development in emerging nations. Brazil’s education policy provides its citizens with widespread educational opportunities, resulting in high literacy rates. However, women wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,001 Views
29 Pages

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide an integrative review of Positive Psychology in contemporary organizational contexts, examining how psychological resources such as Psychological Capital, Emotional Intelligence, Mindfulness, Psycholog...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thriving Through People: Human-Centered Strategies for Organizational Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
656 Views
22 Pages

The rapid emergence of virtual assets, blockchain-based transactions, and immersive digital economies presents major challenges to financial reporting processes (recognition, measurement, disclosure, and assurance). This study aims to investigate sta...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Accounting and Financial/Non-financial Reporting Developments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
8,311 Views
30 Pages

Intellectual Capital, Profitability, and Productivity: Evidence from Pakistani Financial Institutions

  • Hongxing Yao,
  • Muhammad Haris,
  • Gulzara Tariq,
  • Hafiz Mustansar Javaid and
  • Muhammad Aamir Shafique Khan

14 July 2019

The idiosyncratic and knowledge-intense nature of the financial institutions requires them to rely more on intangible than on tangible resources. Over the past two decades, researchers have been motivated to embark on the relationship between intelle...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,162 Views
26 Pages

Water Management as a Social Field: A Method for Engineering Solutions

  • Miguel A. De Luque-Villa and
  • Mauricio González-Méndez

7 October 2024

This paper proposes the use of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological concepts of social fields, capital, and habitus to analyze water management in Colombia. By mapping the social dynamics of water management, this study examines the interactions and...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
24,878 Views
20 Pages

28 October 2022

The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between the multiple mixed financial aid systems and the academic development of college students in Chinese higher education. Under the assistance of National Student Financial Aid Center...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
9,168 Views
27 Pages

Strategizing Human Development for a Country in Transition from a Resource-Based to a Knowledge-Based Economy

  • Btool H. Mohamed,
  • Ibrahim Ari,
  • Mohammed bin Saleh Al-Sada and
  • Muammer Koç

13 December 2021

Human development plays a profound role in achieving sustainable development, by utilizing the power of well-educated blue- and white-collar laborers, academics, politicians, and people from every layer of society and the economy. However, there is n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
168 Citations
26,664 Views
17 Pages

28 August 2014

The recent increase in the use of digital self-tracking devices has given rise to a range of relations to the self often discussed as quantified self (QS). In popular and academic discourse, this development has been discussed variously as a form of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Beyond Techno-Utopia: Critical Approaches to Digital Health Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,688 Views
14 Pages

A Sustainable Approach for the Management and Valorization of Underwater Cultural Heritage: New Perspectives from the TECTONIC Project

  • Michela Ricca,
  • George Alexandrakis,
  • Alessandra Bonazza,
  • Fabio Bruno,
  • Barbara Davidde Petriaggi,
  • Dolores Elkin,
  • Antonio Lagudi,
  • Stephane Nicolas,
  • Michal Novák and
  • Mauro Francesco La Russa
  • + 4 authors

18 June 2020

Documentation and conservation of underwater cultural heritage (UCH) are crucial to preserving humankind’s history and traditions, safeguarding tangible testimonies of past human life while ensuring its accessibility to future generations. The...

(This article belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)

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