This article explores the impact of human capital on the process of economic expansion of Peru’s central region between 2009 and 2022, using data from INEI and MEF. A non-experimental design with panel data was applied, along with two econometric approaches: The Feasible Generalized Least Squares estimation method (FGLS) as well as the Generalized Least Squares (GLS) estimation, which was used to analyze how human capital stock and investment influence real GDP. The analyzed dimensions were education and health, measured through institutional indicators, teaching staff, health coverage, and public expenditure. The results reveal positive and significant effects, with the models explaining 82% and 78% of GDP variability, highlighting public spending on education as the main determinant. In summary, human capital—both in terms of stock and investment—constitutes an essential factor in regional economic growth, reinforcing the need to strengthen public and economic policies in Peru’s central macro-region.

The export development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Indonesia is still very low, resulting in their contribution to national exports being very small as well. Government bodies and relevant stakeholders are actively pursuing initiatives to enhance the export performance of SMEs. These efforts include improving the quality of human and social capital and promoting the integration of digital technology into SME operations. This examination evaluates the impact of human capital (HC), social capital (SC), and the utilization of digital technology on the export performance of SMEs. The investigation adopted a survey approach on all export-oriented SMEs listed on the Bank Indonesia website. Data was obtained through the distribution of questionnaires to 614 SMEs. Data analysis was conducted using PLS SEM. The research findings indicate that human capital, social capital, and digital technology have a positive and significant influence on the export performance of SMEs in Indonesia.

The present study centered on the mediation of innovation and the moderation of collective organizational engagement in affecting human capital (a combination of skill and knowledge) on sustainable competitive advantage and further examined human capital, innovation, and collective organizational engagement impacts on sustainable competitive advantage. Subsequently, this study utilized a quantitative approach, engaging 270 sample frame SME units in Indonesia using a Likert scale questionnaire and examining it using SEM-PLS. The findings demonstrate that human capital positively and significantly impacted innovation and sustainable competitive advantage, indicating that a high level of business skill, business orientation, perception of risk, and know-how management enhances the organization’s innovation capability, creating distinctive, exceptional, and invaluable resources as core competencies of sustainable competitive advantage. This study confirms and advances the RBV theory and previous studies by examining intangible resources' mediating and moderating role, in which innovation contributes to mediating the effect of human capital on sustainable competitive advantage and collective organizational engagement reinforces (moderates) the impact of human capital on establishing sustainable competitive advantage. So, the results of this research illuminate the significance of human capital, innovation, and collective organizational engagement as the organization’s superior resources in manifesting sustainable competitive advantage.

Literature indicates it is crucial to understand how SMEs could adapt to changes in their external environment to develop a competitive advantage. However, there is limited discussion on how entrepreneurs’ resilience functions as one of the dynamic capabilities required to maintain their company’s competitive advantage in the long-term. This study aimed to investigate how entrepreneurial resilience affects SMEs ability to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. It also analyzed the moderating role of local cultural values in reinforcing resilience and sustainable competitive advantage. The population consisted of 400 handicraft SME who were thought of as Bali’s sustaining tourism sector. The results demonstrated that financial capital, human capital, and social capital were factors that shaped entrepreneurial resilience, where the ownership of capital and access to capital helped entrepreneurs when encountering changes in the dynamic and challenging industrial environment, where the role of financial capital was one of the sources of resilience that had the most significant influence. Furthermore, entrepreneurial resilience also contributed significantly to the achievement of sustainable competitive advantage. Moreover, the results also indicate that local cultural values strengthen entrepreneurial resilience because entrepreneurs who adjusted to local cultural norms developed in the surrounding community tended to respond positively to their behavior. Positive environmental acceptance could reinforce entrepreneurial resilience, given the psychological support of their behavior.

The study examines how school-related factors influence the cognitive, psychological, and mental development of Vietnamese students. We randomly sent the questionnaires to more than 2000 students with different majors at five top universities in Vietnam based on the Ranking Web of Universities and conducted in-depth online interviews with respondents. Subsequently, we tested the correlation between student development and four school-related factors, including academic staff quality, school infrastructure, teaching curriculum, and school environment, using SPSS 22 and STATA version 2016. The findings suggest the significant role of staff quality in determining the level of student satisfaction. Specifically, students express their satisfaction and appreciation with their studies if their teachers have a solid academic platform. More importantly, infrastructure is positively correlated with three dependent variables, while teaching curriculum only influences cognitive development. The school environment positively affects psychological, mental, but not cognitive development. We also find that gender does not moderate students’ development but does influence student satisfaction.

The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the role of technology innovation on the influence of intellectual capital on SMEs performance. Resources based view and stakeholder theory underlies this research. Primary data was collected using a survey method from 399 culinary business SMEs managers spread throughout Bali. The number of samples is determined using the Slovin formula. In this study, the partial least squares structural equation model (PLS-SEM) was applied to be tested for validity and reliability. The results of the study show that human capital, structural capital and customer capital have a significant positive effect on technology innovation. Human capital has no effect on SMEs’ performance, but structural capital and customer capital have no significant effect on SMEs performance. Technology innovation has a significant effect on SMEs’ performance. Furthermore, technology innovation can mediate the influence of human capital, structural capital and customer capital on SMEs performance.

The relevance of this study is due to the urgent need to form a knowledge economy through the rational and holistic use of human capital and the consistent implementation of innovative approaches. The paper analyzes the key structural elements of the innovation environment, which contribute not only to professional development and the realization of intellectual potential, but also to increasing labor productivity and the efficiency of production processes. A qualimetric toolkit is proposed that provides a deep analysis of the state of human capital in the context of an innovative economy, allowing to assess its quality and effectiveness of application in various areas of management and production. The developed strategic model of human resources development for the knowledge economy provides not only for the modernization of the education system, but also for the intensification of innovative activity and the adaptation of professional competencies to the challenges of the globalized world. Particular attention is paid to the importance of balanced development of human capital, which is justified by the principle of the golden ratio, and practical mechanisms for synchronizing management decisions in the field of human resources with the strategic goals of innovative progress are also proposed. This approach ensures comprehensive and adaptive development of human potential, which is the foundation of sustainable development of a modern innovative economy.

There is abundant literature on sustainable construction projects. This review study collects a set of studies to understand the depth of the topic as per the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For this purpose, the Scopus database is explored with a systematic review approach, and 80 studies are selected. The literature emphasizes the integration of human capital, technological innovation, governance, and financial support to achieve sustainable objectives in construction projects. Moreover, education can improve technical and strategic competencies in graduates to promote experiential learning for the construction industry. Furthermore, sustainable construction can be enhanced by circular economy principles. In addition, risk management also needs attention to ensure operational reliability in construction projects. For this purpose, institutions and governance can align technical and ecological priorities in a project to achieve sustainability objectives. Innovations can also improve efficiency and knowledge management. Lastly, economic and financial mechanisms can also support this phenomenon. The study suggests promoting education, technology, and governance to support sustainable construction as per the SDGs.

Current organizations need to create advantages by measuring and developing intangible resources. Business intelligence and knowledge management help to achieve it. On the other hand, virtual teams have problems that make the regularization of their work processes and their social interaction methods difficult and restrict the team members to unfold efficiently. Knowledge management purposes skills from structural capital and human capital and it is believed to solve these types of problems in virtual teams. This research has the objective to identify the best practices and opportunity areas for the intelligent management of virtual teams by showing practical suggestions in the discussion built with the inferential statistics testing of five hypotheses. The results indicate that three hypotheses were accepted while two were rejected.

This article establishes and grounds the topicality of personal human capital for its development. It proves that the available approaches, methods and models do not consider the business enterprise needs to increase the efficiency of individual employee’s contribution to the formation of market value. Human capital is offered to consider as a function of personal intelligence, which depends on the personal creative, status and social abilities. The adaptation of mathematical tools is conducted to establish intellectual personal characteristics with justification of different variants of their numerical values. The article also completes the evaluation tools by way of questionnaires, tests and personal objective characteristics, and suggests the approaches to the procedure of results evaluation and interpretation. The testing of the mathematical and testing tools of the personal human capital research was conducted with a group of people whose team is as close as possible to a typical industrial staff workers or its structural subdivision. The results of the personal human capital survey allowed us to identify both individual and collective needs in improving the planning processes for its development.