Vladimir Dzenopoljac

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• PhD
• Associate Professor at Zayed University

The paper examines how intangible assets, measured as the Value Added Intellectual Coefficient (VAIC), impact the margin and return ratios of the most profitable companies in Serbia. Previous research has demonstrated that intangible assets have a positive effect on the company's profitability across various contexts, including the European Union,...

This chapter presents a case study of an innovative entrepreneurial university in the UAE: Zayed University’s College of Interdisciplinary Studies, established in 2021 in partnership with the US-based Minerva Project. The novel interdisciplinary curriculum aims to equip students - who are predominantly female - with the skills underpinning transfor...

This study examines how knowledge sharing contributes to organizations’ ambidexterity, their overall performance, and the role of knowledge quality in this relationship. Knowledge sharing is conceptualized based on tacit and explicit dimensions, and ambidexterity is viewed as comprising exploitative and explorative capabilities. This study utilizes...

This study analyzes bankruptcy patterns and their influence on the on-field success of seven prominent European football clubs traded on their countries’ respective stock exchanges. During the period between 2008 and 2020, the current study reveals how these clubs perform financially benchmarked against respective well-established bankruptcy scores...

In today's turbulent business environment, gaining sustainable competitive advantage requires organizations to manage knowledge capabilities effectively and use resources efficiently. The primary objective of this study is to explore the relationship among knowledge management (KM) processes, including knowledge generation, knowledge codification,...

This study analyzes bankruptcy patterns and their influence on the on-field success of seven prominent European football clubs traded on their countries’ respective stock exchanges. During the period between 2008 and 2020, the current study reveals how these clubs perform financially benchmarked against respective well-established bankruptcy sco...

Digital transformation programs at the national level had a significant impact on innovation. However, there is a lack of understanding as to whether this dynamic is compounded by the higher exposure to international trade, thanks to digitalization. Thus, the objective of this chapter is to demonstrate that a nation's spending on digital transforma...

DeFi is seen as an important avenue for new venture creation, especially in the area of raising startup capital. The traditional financial system poses significant obstacles to raising initial funds, especially to vulnerable groups of entrepreneurs, such as female entrepreneurs, ethnic minority entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurs with low average net...

Purpose The adoption of an entrepreneurial posture supports higher education institutions (HEIs) in their quest for growth. The present study examines the role faculty members play in adopting an entrepreneurial orientation (EO) in HEIs within the Kuwaiti academic context and aims to assess whether this orientation contributes to fostering corporat...

Purpose The purpose of this research is to provide a critical review of the intellectual capital (IC) research in hospitality and tourism (HT) literature. Design/methodology/approach This study uses 141 research papers published on IC in HT between 2003 and 2021 to offer the findings of a systematic review of publications that cover the issue of I...

Purpose The employer brand is a crucial intangible asset for companies as it enhances the employer–employee relationship, leading to improved employee performance and overall company outcomes. This paper aims to investigate the contribution of the employer brand to the financial results of companies in southern Europe. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose The study aims to assess the relative impact of intellectual capital (IC) as opposed to tangible assets on profitability and employee performance in hotels in Serbia before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Design/methodology/approach The current study was undertaken in 2019, the year before COVID-19, and 2020, t...

The current chapter discusses important characteristics of the family business in Kuwait by looking into the links between entrepreneurship, small and medium-sized enterprises, family businesses, and their growth over the years. The authors start by giving a general overview of Kuwait's business ecosystem, which served as a predominant external fac...

This conceptual paper explores the potential relationship between a manager's contribution in sealing cross-border Merger and Acquisition (M&A) deals, on the one hand, and tacit knowledge transfer, on the other. The paper's basic premise posits that those managers are likely to be exposed to significant tacit knowledge flows as they participate in...

The concept of entrepreneurship in general has been addressed as the force of creative destruction. This contradictory title of the concept is logical since it describes the emergence of new ideas, business ventures, services, products, and creation of new jobs, while the “destroying” part refers to dismantling the existing balance in the external...

Since its inception, the intellectual capital (IC) framework, which developed from accounting and financial perspectives, focused primarily on firm-level analysis. There have been several important attempts in the literature to take IC to the macroeconomic level. The purpose of this paper is to assess the relationship between national intellectual...

Customer loyalty programs are frequently used by companies to establish and improve relationships with customers by providing them with rewards. Loyalty programs investigated in the literature focus mainly on tangible rewards and economic benefits offered to the customers. However, some research done on intangible rewards of loyalty programs sugges...

This study assesses whether intellectual capital (IC), measured using the Value-Added Intellectual Coefficient (VAIC), can predict the financial and market performance of listed companies in a developing economy. Panel data from all 174 companies listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange were analyzed. Four company performance measures were investigated:...

Research Question: This conceptual research explores the role that academic entrepreneurship can play in Middle Eastern countries in addressing the effects of COVID-19 pandemic in the region. Motivation: Entrepreneurial universities are pivotal in contemporary economic systems due to their significant contributions in innovation efforts. Part of th...

Customer loyalty programs are frequently used by companies to establish and improve relationships with customers by providing them with rewards. Loyalty programs investigated in the literature focus mainly on tangible rewards and economic benefits offered to the customers. However, some research done on intangible rewards of loyalty programs sugges...

This paper investigates the interaction of public information arrivals and volatility in the cryptocurrency market from the perspective of intellectual capital, specifically, relational capital. The empirical analysis was conducted using Kapetanios' unit root test, various scaling (Hurst exponent) tests, a fractionally integrated generalized autore...

We investigate the relationship between IFRS adoption and firms’ cash holdings in ten Arab countries in the MENA. We first show that IFRS adoption reduces the cash holdings of the firms. The effect of IFRS adoption is robust for high-income countries in the Gulf region. This result implies that high-quality financial information reduces the informa...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which perceived servant leadership of the supervisors impacts the intrinsic and extrinsic job satisfaction of the followers. Design/methodology/approach Servant leadership factor structure was evaluated by applying Liden et al. ’s (2008) measure, and used the second-order model to test...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to assess the extent to which financial and market performance of companies in the oil and gas sector can be attributed to the value of their intangibles. Design/methodology/approach: The research utilized publicly available data on global oil and gas companies from 2000 to 2015. Panel data analysis was used to...

The paper analyses the firm-level factors that encourage companies from the Gulf countries to conduct investments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) using mergers and acquisitions. Numerous local investors do not seem to be deterred by dissuasive locational variables and ineffective integration in the MENA region. Trade agreements amongst M...

The purpose of this research study is to investigate the relationship between knowledge management (KM) processes and the level of business performance of organizations in Kuwait. The research utilized a survey that was administered to 500 employees of 139 private and government companies in Kuwait. Tests of validity and reliability confirmed the u...

This explorative study advocates rm characteristics as potential drivers of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Research propositions stipulate the role of rm-speci c variables in explaining the regional expansion of MENA companies through FDI. MENA companies in different sectors have increasingly...

Intellectual and knowledge based assets, as the elements of intellectual capital (IC) are key aspects of competitiveness in all types of firms in today’s knowledge economy. A huge portion of these assets are driven or supported by Information Systems (IS). The technological changes that occurred in the past few decades in how information is created...

Purpose: This research paper has two purposes: first, to fill a gap in the intellectual capital (IC) literature by providing insights into the relationship between IC and corporate performance among Arab companies; and second, to challenge the validity of the Value Added Intellectual Coefficient (VAIC) as a measure of IC’s contribution to performan...

This paper examines the impact of 2007 financial crisis on the efficiency of 49 banks listed in the Forbes top 100 companies in the Arab World, by applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The intermediation process was applied with net interest income and non-interest income as outputs and interest expense and non-interest expense as inputs. DEA i...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether intellectual capital (IC) creates value in the Serbian information communication technology (ICT) sector. More specifically, it examines the degree to which IC and its key components affect the financial performance of selected ICT companies compared to effects on physical and financial capi...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to determine whether intellectual capital (IC) creates value in the Serbian hotel industry. Specifically, this paper examines to what degree IC and its key components affect the financial performance of hotels compared to physical and financial capital. Design/methodology/approach – The sample included all of...

U radu se istražuje efikasnost upotrebe intelektualnog kapitala (IK) kod preduzeća u Srbiji. Kompariraju se performanse upotrebe IK-a kod sedam različitih grupa preduzeća koja su razvrstana prema kriterijumu delatnosti (informaciono-komunikacione tehnologije, hotelijerstvo, bankarstvo) ili uspešnosti poslovanja (iznos ostvarene neto dobiti u 2010....

Knowledge economy is mainly based on intellectual capital (IC), which plays a key role in contemporary enterprise’s value creation. The basic components of IC are human, structural, and relational capital. The substance of IC is made of intangible resources of an enterprise. There is empirical evidence of increased investments in IC that reveals th...

Intelektualni kapital (IK) opredeljuje potencijal rasta, generiše najveći deo uvećane vrednosti i, samim tim, predstavlja izvor konkurentske prednosti preduzeća informatičke privrede. Brojni su empirijski dokazi koji potvrđuju značajan rast investicija u IK i da okosnicu procesa stvaranja vrednosti čini upravljanje IK-om. Osnovne komponente IK-a su...

Innovation is certainly one of few issues whose relevance to social and economic development has been widely recognized. Innovation is a fundamental factor in economic growth and prosperity. This is particularly important in a knowledge-based economy. Taking into account the nature of innovation, this paper explores its role and importance in the p...

Interest in research on measuring and analyzing intellectual capital (IC) and determining its impact on corporate performance is growing. This paper explores the impact of IC, measured using the value added intellectual coefficient (VAIC), on the corporate performance of Serbian banks during the period of 2008-2011. Performance measures used includ...

The research empirically evaluates the effects of intellectual capital (IC) and its key components (human and structural capital) on financial performance. In order to investigate the present situation regarding IC in Serbia, we observed 100 Serbian companies that achieved the highest net profits in 2010. The data were gathered from the official fi...

Apstrakt Brojni su dokazi koji nedvosmisleno ukazuju na činjenicu da intelektualni kapital (IK) opredeljuje potencijal rasta preduzeća i generiše najveći deo uvećane vrednosti. Različiti oblici IK-a, kao što su znanje, veštine, talenat i entuzijazam zaposlenih, patenti, know-how, softveri, baze podataka, menadžment proces, korporativna strategija i...

This paper aims to provide a framework for studying the relationship between the balanced scorecard (BSC) and total quality management (TQM). Empirical investigation suggests that numerous organizations have adopted BSC and TQM. Both concepts are a performance and strategic measurement and management tool. BSC appraises four dimensions of organizat...

Knowledge-based economy changes the business model of a contemporary firm. The dominating business model within the hyper competition, globalization, and internet revolution, entails identifying, measuring, and exploiting intangible assets of a firm, aiming at maximization of shareholder value. Intangible assets determine the growth potential, gene...

Although intellectual capital (IC) is the key issue in achieving and sustaining competitiveness in the long run, the literature is limited in offering empirical data on whether IC affects export performance of the firm. This paper explores the impact of IC, measured using the Value Added Intellectual Coefficient (VAIC), on financial performance, as...

The paper investigates the interdependence between intellectual capital (IC) and its components (human, structural, and physical capital) in relation to the financial performance of Serbian companies. The research used the data from the financial reports of 15 companies with the highest trade rates on the Belgrade Stock Exchange (BELEX) over 2007-2...

There is significant evidence that intellectual capital (IC) determines a company's potential for growth and generates the majority of its added value. Thus, research into measuring and analyzing IC and determining its impact on the financial and market performance of companies is gaining increasing interest. Different forms of IC such as knowledge...

U radu se razmatra formulisanje istraživačko-razvojne strategije preduzeća pomoću usklađene liste. Imajući u vidu karakter aktivnosti istraživanja i razvoja, poseban značaj dobija sposobnost uspešnog formulisanja istraživačko-razvojne strategije. Izlaganje otpočinje sveobuhvatnom analizom same logike koncepta usklađene liste. Posebno se sagledava r...

Glavna razlika između industrijske ekonomije i ekonomije bazirane na znanju je mesto i uloga nematerijalne aktive u procesu stvaranja vrednosti. Značaj nematerijalne aktive je lako razumeti kada se ima u vidu činjenica da više od 75% tržišne vrednosti savremenih preduzeća čine upravo neopipljivi resursi [1]. Ovo dalje iziskuje neophodnost adekvatno...

The paper examines the issue of valuing potential synergistic effects within merger & acquisition (M&A) strategy. Synergy represents most commonly reported motive for undertaking M&A strategy and therefore it is necessary to estimate its effects on potential business combination. The paper starts with positioning synergy among wide specter of M&A u...

Kod donošenja investicionih odluka, kvalitetno odlučivanje pretpostavlja pravilnu procenu vrednosnog potencijala određene investicione alternative. Preuzimanje preduzeća se može tretirati kao svojevrstan investicioni poduhvat. Za adekvatnu procenu vrednosnog potencijala takve strategijske akcije, bitno je proceniti potencijal stvaranja vrednosti pr...

The impact of logistics on an enterprise is very significant. Bearing in mind the ultimate goal of a business, the value adding and value creation for owners, logistics represents the group of important value drivers which must be controlled adequately in order to achieve customer and owner satisfaction. The main issue of this paper will be the asp...

Преструктурирање предузећа у привреди која пролази кроз процес транзиције представља неопходност. У оквиру стратегије преструктурирања предузећа, значајно место припада елементима стратегије технолошког преструктурирања. Посебан значај у оквиру технолошког преструктурирања домаћих предузећа може имати однос пословне са технолошком стратегијом, евид...