Intellectual capital and business performance in Algerian companies

Abstract EN

The purpose of the study is to investigate the impact of Intellectual Capital (IC) In Algerian Companies' Business Performance (BP).

The data was collected from 307 employees by means of a questionnaire.

Statistical techniques such as descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA test, correlation and multiple regressions were employed.

To confirm the suitability of data collection instrument, a Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) test, Cronbach‟s Alpha and factor analysis were used.

The present study found that each of the three types of intellectual capital to be associated with increased business performance .

Human capital, structural capital and relational capital exhibited weak relationship with business performance .

The relationship between structural capital and performance become statistically significant in the study with weakness relationship .

IC should be taken into serious consideration when formulating the companies' strategy.

Finally, these results refer the necessary to increase the awareness of the manager to the importance of the intellectual capital component‟s in result to increase the business performance .