2022
DOI: 10.3390/su14052682
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Does Intellectual Capital Affect Financial Leverage of Chinese Agricultural Companies? Exploring the Role of Firm Profitability

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to examine the relationship between intellectual capital (IC) and firms’ financial leverage by exploring whether firm profitability mediates this relationship, using a dataset of Chinese agricultural listed companies during the period of 2014–2020. Financial leverage is measured by the debt-to-asset ratio, and IC is measured via the modified value-added intellectual coefficient (MVAIC) model. The results reveal that financial leverage is lower in firms with higher levels of IC, a… Show more

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“…The above is within the framework of a 2.22 19907 probability, a t-statistic of 3.47557137, and an F-statistic equal to 0 . Also, the results of Chowdhury et al (2018) and Jin and Xu (2022) are consistent with the validation of hypothesis 1.…”
Section: Discussion Of the Panel Data Model Resultssupporting
confidence: 82%
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“…The above is within the framework of a 2.22 19907 probability, a t-statistic of 3.47557137, and an F-statistic equal to 0 . Also, the results of Chowdhury et al (2018) and Jin and Xu (2022) are consistent with the validation of hypothesis 1.…”
Section: Discussion Of the Panel Data Model Resultssupporting
confidence: 82%
“…The application of ROA to measure financial performance is configured as one of the most representative variables in this type of measurement (Jin and Xu, 2022;Xu and Zhang, 2021;Chowdhury et al, 2019;Tiwari and Vidyarthi, 2018;Bontis. et al, 207;Nawaz and Haniffa, 207;Cahill.…”
Section: Regardingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Relational Capital focuses on the loyalty of an organization’s workers and external groups (Bontis et al, 2000; Khalique et al, 2015; Vaz et al, 2019). Customers are Relational Capital’s most valuable asset (Jin & Xu, 2022). In several studies, customer capital is used rather than relational capital (Ferreira & Martinez, 2011).…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Dudley and Zhang (2015) investigated the association between the societal trust and corporate cash holdings. Jin and Xu (2022) show that firms with higher intellectual capital have lower financial leverage, whereas Shahdadi et al (2022) indicate a positive impact of intellectual capital on liquidity. Recently, researchers have started to focus on a new research area related to the Cash holdings and financial leverage 73 determinants of corporate financial policies, namely, environmental issues such as corporate environmental performance (Chang et al, 2018;Cuesta et al, 2019;Fard et al, 2019;Kalash, 2021a;Harper and Sun, 2019;Dimitropoulos and Koronios, 2021;Liao et al, 2021), air pollution (Li et al, 2019;Li et al, 2021;Tan et al, 2021a) and climate change (Yu et al, 2022).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 97%