An Investigation of Unexpected Forms of Capital in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

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10.2991/978-94-6463-758-8_128How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Religious Psychological Capital; Social Capital; Intellectual Capital; Small and Medium Enterprises

Abstract

As the shift of economy towards knowledge and innovation, intellectual capital has become no less important than nowadays because it becomes one of key elements in creating value and sustainable business in facing global market challenges. This research focuses on investigating the interconnections between the various forms of capital, particularly psychological and social capitals toward enterprises’ intellectual capital. To fill the gap, this research proposes a new construct which is known as religious-psychological capital to accommodate the certain issues in the domain of economics relating to ethic, culture, and beliefs. This is an explanatory research approaching by quantitative with survey method. G-Form is used to distribute the questionnaire gathering 104 responses. Structural Equation Model (SEM) is used to create an in-depth analysis. Empirically, the result shows that all hypotheses are supported, and the model is validated. The findings of this research shed the light on SMEs’ actors for not only focusing on physical capital but also improving intellectual capital throughout religious-psychological and social capitals’ interconnection to maintain and create the sustainability of their businesses.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Syahril Masri
AU  - Muhammad Idrus Taba
AU  - Wardhani Hakim
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/07/30
TI  - An Investigation of Unexpected Forms of Capital in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
BT  - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Accounting, Management, and Economics 2024 (ICAME 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1622
EP  - 1635
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-758-8_128
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-758-8_128
ID  - Masri2025
ER  -