Explaining Impacts of Intellectual Capital on Reducing Firmsâ Probability of Bankruptcy: Evidence from Tehran Stock Exchange

Moradi Shahdadi, Khosro; Anvary Rostamy, Ali Asghar; Anvary Rostamy, Ali Asghar; Ranjbar, Mohammad Hossein; Sadeghi Sharif, Seyed Jalal

Explaining Impacts of Intellectual Capital on Reducing Firmsâ Probability of Bankruptcy: Evidence from Tehran Stock Exchange

Authors

Khosro Moradi Shahdadi ¹

Ali Asghar Anvary Rostamy

Mohammad Hossein Ranjbar ²

Seyed Jalal Sadeghi Sharif ³

¹ PhD candidate in financial management, Islamic Azad University, UAE Branch

² Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas Branch, Bandarabbas, Iran.

³ Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Rapid technological changes, intense competition of enterprises, and globalization have transformed the phenomenon of financial distress and corporate bankruptcy into a major issue in financial and investment literature. Bankruptcy attracted the attention of financial sector activists, including investors, lenders, suppliers, business partners, and governments. Considering the role of intellectual capital in organizations, one can expect that companies with a richer intellectual capital are more intelligent in avoiding bankruptcy. The purpose of this research is to investigate the role of intellectual capital and its components (including human capital, structural capital, and customer capital) on firms’ probability of bankruptcy in Tehran Stock Exchange. For this purpose, the data of 147 firms from Tehran Stock Exchange that are selected by systematic elimination method were studied during time period of 1387 to 1393. In order to measure the intellectual capital, the PULIC model applied and to assess the probability of bankruptcy, conversion of Zscore results (from Altman Model) to the probability used. Also, to test hypotheses, multivariate regression models with hybrid data have been used. The results of the hypothesis test show that intellectual capital and its components have reverse (negative) and significant effects on the firms’ probability of bankruptcy in Tehran Stock Exchange.

Keywords

Intellectual capital

Probability of Bankruptcy

tehran stock exchange