Intellectual capital and SMEs’ performance: A structured literature review

By Maria Chiara Demartini, Valentina Beretta. Journal of Small Business Management, 2019

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ABSTRACT The role played by intellectual capital (IC) is crucial in the context of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Nonetheless, IC literature focusing on SMEs settings is limited and fragmented. This study provides a structured literature review (SLR) of existing evidence related to the effect of IC on SMEs performance. Findings show that strategic outcomes – such as innovation, knowledge management, and core competencies – and corporate performance of SMEs are impacted by IC. Further research could analyze the impact of IC on other determinants of SMEs’ performance such as learning organization, conversation management, and invisible assets.

Subfields: Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Intellectual agility and innovation in micro and small businesses: The mediating role of entrepreneurial leadership (2021, background): “The survival of SMEs in an unpredictable environment depends on the entrepreneurship and leadership competences of their owners/managers, combined with their talent, energy, and skills (Huang et al., 2014; Paudel, 2019; Demartini and Beretta, 2020).”