During the last decade, intellectual capital (IC) and intangible assets have been widely considered as critical tool to deliver successful business in an intensive-knowledge environment. Accordingly, the main goal of this paper is therefore to develop and prioritize the most important indicators of intellectual capital in knowledge-based industries. Based on an extensive literature review, a va...

The notion of Net Present Value (NPV) is thought to formally translate the notion of economic profit, where the discount rate is the cost of capital. The latter is the expected rate of return of an equivalent-risk alternative that the investor might undertake and is often found by making recourse to the Capital Asset Pricing Model. This paper shows that the notions of disequilibrium NPV and eco...

We model virtue as an asset on the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates, preserving their virtue increases girls’ chances of getting a "good" husband, and therefore allows for upward social mobility. Consistent with some historical and anthropological evidence, we find that the diffusion (and the social value) of virginity, across societies and over time, can be deter...

As the popularity of social networks is continuously growing, collected data about online social activities is becoming an important asset enabling many applications such as target advertising, sale promotions, and marketing campaigns. Although most social interactions are recorded through online activities, we believe that social experiences taking place offline in the real physical world are ...

a number of theories about the hest method of allocating assets have been developed over the years, managers are concernd about allocating scarce resources, mainly capital, in most productive way. managers want to ensure that the return from the invested resources exceeds the cost of resources finanical theories and finanicial strategies try to facilitate creating optimum value for investors in...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of "Asset Securitization" on bankschr('39') performances. Asset securitization is generally defined as the "financial process by which an owner of an asset, such as a portfolio of loans, receives cash upfront in exchange for the future cash flows from the asset without selling the asset in a normal contractual sales agreement." (Menzi et a...

In the struggle to gain and sustain competitive advantages, companies develop certain resource bundles (known as strategic assets) which are fundamental to firm performance. More often than not, these strategic assets are knowledge-based assets involving organizational processes and human and social capital as opposed to physical assets. Increasingly, companies are turning to project management...