Impact of intellectual capital on corporate performance: evidence from the Arab region

Dr Vladimir Dženopoljac is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and the Director of MBA studies at the American University of the Middle East (AUM), Kuwait. He received his PhD Degree from the Faculty of Economics, University of Kragujevac, Serbia, in the field of impact of intellectual capital on value creation in contemporary enterprises. Alongside his academic career, Dr Vladimir was providing consultancy services in the fields of strategy development and execution, business planning, and financial planning and analysis. He has published a significant number of research papers in his field of professional expertise, and has been involved in implementation of several projects for small, medium, and big companies. His areas of professional interest are strategic financial management and intellectual capital management.

Dr Chadi Yaacoub is an Associate Professor of Finance at the American University of the Middle East (AUM), Kuwait. He holds a PhD Degree in Business from the University of Paris 11 – Faculté Jean Monnet, France. His thesis focused on the field of Behavioral Finance, mainly the behavior of investors in the stock market, and the rationality of their financial decision making. Dr Chadi held Senior Executive Finance and Accounting Corporate positions in education, FMCG, manufacturing, insurance companies, in addition to providing consultancy services, including feasibility studies, mergers and acquisitions, finance ERP implementation, as well as investment research and valuation. Dr Chadi supervised students through CFA Research Challenge Competitions on local and regional levels. He is the winner of the AUM College of Business Administration Faculty Award for Outstanding Contribution to University Life in 2014.

Nasser Elkanj is currently employed as an Associate Professor of Finance at the American University of the Middle East. He received his Masters and PhD Degrees from the School of Economics and Finance at the Western Sydney University. His research focuses on measuring banks’ efficiency and the methodology and theoretical modeling of conflicts with reference to risk of conflicts based on CAPM model. His most recent work was published as a book by Routledge in 2016 under the name Analytical Peace Economics: The Illusion of War for Peace.

Dr Nick Bontis is the Chair of Strategic Management at the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University. He received his PhD Degree from the Ivey Business School at the Western University in Ontario, Canada. His doctoral dissertation is recognized as the first thesis to integrate the fields of intellectual capital, organizational learning and knowledge management and is the number one selling thesis in Canada. He was recently recognized as the first McMaster Professor to win outstanding teacher of the year and faculty researcher of the year simultaneously. He is a 3M National Teaching Fellow, an exclusive honor only bestowed upon the top university professors in Canada. Dr Bontis is recognized the world over as a leading Professional Speaker and Consultant in the field of Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital.