Defining the Performance of the Organization on the Basis of Tendency to Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Capital: A structural equations modeling approach

Subject Areas : Business Management

Mohammad Akbare Borang ¹ , Samira Pour ² , Mohsen Ayti ³

1 - Assistant Professor of Curriculum, Faculty of Education Sciences and Psychology, University of Birjand
2 - PhD student of organizational behavior management, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Birjand University

Received: 2013-10-29 Accepted : 2014-06-07 Published : 2014-09-23

Keywords: Intellectual Capital, Firm Performance, Tendency to entrepreneurship, Wood &amp, Wood Products Industry,

Abstract :

According to the viewpoint based on resources, the superior performanceof organizations can result from their unique resources, integration ofresources and ability to respond to the user's environment. According to thisviewpoint, the difference in organizations performance is due to the fact thatsuccessful organizations possess the strategic resources (physical, human,and organizational) that their competitors lack. Thus, differences inresources have an important role in creating profit for the organization.Among the firm's resources is intellectual capital, which has threedimensions: human, structural and communicational Hence, this studyinvestigates the role of intellectual capital and tendency to entrepreneurshipand their effects on the firm performance. The study is a descriptive, surveyanalysis, which draws on census – taking method .The data were collectedfrom the small and medium firms of Wood and Wood Products industries inMashhad and analyzed through the use of PLS software. The resultsindicated that tendency to entrepreneurship has a significant effect on firmperformance. In addition, they showed that of the three dimensions ofintellectual capital, the communicational capital has the highest rate of effecton the performance of the organization

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