Intellectual capital before and during COVID-19 in the hotel industry: the moderating role of tangible assets

Jasmina Ognjanovic is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Hotel Management and Tourism in Vrnjačka Banja, University of Kragujevac. She completed her bachelor's studies, master's studies and PhD studies at the Faculty of Economics, University of Kragujevac. Her research interest includes the impact of human resources, employer brand and intellectual capital on a hotel's business and results.

Vladimir Dzenopoljac is the Associate Professor of Business Transformation at the College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Zayed University, in Dubai. He is also engaged as the Associate Professor and a lead Researcher at School of Business, Prague City University (PCU), Czech Republic. Previously, he served as the Associate Professor of Strategic Management at College of Business and Economics, United Arab Emirates University in Al Ain. Before coming to the UAE, Vladimir was the Associate Professor, Director of the MBA program and Business Consulting Center coordinator at the College of Business Administration, American University of the Middle East, Kuwait. He received his PhD Degree from the University of Kragujevac, Serbia, in the field of impact of intellectual capital on value creation in contemporary enterprises, where he started his academic career in 2002. Alongside his academic career, Vladimir was providing business consultancy services in the fields of strategy development and execution, business planning, financial planning and analysis and leadership. He is an active researcher in the areas of strategy, intellectual capital, knowledge management, leadership and entrepreneurship.

Stefano Cavagnetto is currently the Dean of the PCU School of Business and the Director of the Center for Research and Interdisciplinary Studies (CRIS) at PCU. After earning his doctor's degree in Philosophy at the Amedeo Avogadro University in Italy and being visiting scholar at the Columbia University in New York City, Dr Stefano Cavagnetto moved to Prague and specialized in Mathematical Logic and Computational Complexity Theory at the Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and earned his PhD in Mathematical Logic at Charles University. He has been a visiting scholar and fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge (UK) and has been published in the fields of logic, theoretical philosophy, ethics and strategy. He has written two university textbooks for undergraduate and postgraduate students on natural deduction and the formalization of natural languages and mathematical logic, respectively.