Intellectual capital Effect on the Project’s Performance in the United Arab Emirates
Abstract
Infrastructure projects have been developed rapidly within the United Arab Emirates over the last decade; this development meets the government trends toward setting the United Arab Emirates as one of the commercial, preferable, and tourism destinations. The main objective of the current research is to find out the impact of the human capital (HC), structural capital (SC), relational capital (RC), and social capital (SC) on the project performance. The quantitative approach was followed in this study to test the structured hypotheses. The data source of this study is retrieved from two sources, as the infrastructure projects providers within the country list into two exchange security markets the Abu Dhabi exchange security market, and Dubai exchange security market. This study focuses on the time period 2014 to 2018, to explore the optimal adoption of the intellectual capital components by the infrastructure projects providers, to overcome the slowdown economy challenges. This research has found out that there are positive and significant relationships between the human capital, structural capital, relational capital, and social capital, with the return of asset, return of equity and earning per share (that represents the project performance).
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