Three components govern the impact of intangible management on the growth of SMEs: human, structural and relational capitals. The relationship with the institutional system of innovation (ISI) is novel. The results highlight that the ISI does not satisfy the needs of SMEs fully.

Over decades, research on multinational enterprises' (MNEs) strategies has been anchored in internalization theory. Strongly grounded in transaction cost economics to explain foreign market entry, it hardly explains how MNEs can build and sustain a competitive advantage. Thus, this paper aims at...

This paper aims to provide a research agenda for qualitative studies in the field of strategic management (SM) in the Baltic area. A total of 167 strategic management-related articles in this area between 2000 and 2013 were found. The content within title, abstract and authors' keywords were...

Human capital is a source of competitive advantage, since it helps to build core competencies which position the company above its competitors. Core competencies are dynamic competencies of superior hierarchy, which integrate, build and reconfigure internal and external factors of business to...

The aim of this paper is to introduce a model that makes explicit the links among intellectual capital (IC) items (human-HC, structural-SC and relational capital-RC) and the indicators activity growth in innovative SMEs. Several authors have pointed out the importance of knowledge and innovation...

The paper reviews the initiatives concerning the measurement, management and disclosure of intellectual capital (IC) in public universities. Those organizations also are facing the challenge of manage intangibles in their value creation process. Several researches have been developed linking...