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 Volume 12, Issue 4 (April 2025), Pages: 232-240

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 Original Research Paper

The impact of innovation on intellectual capital: Evidence from the Saudi Electricity Company

 Author(s): 

 Saleh Suleiman Al-Dahmashi 1, Ebrahim Mohammed Al-Matari 2, *

 Affiliation(s):

  1Executive Master of Business Administration Program, College of Business, Jouf University, Sakakah, Saudi Arabia
  2Department of Accounting, College of Business, Jouf University, Sakakah, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

   Corresponding author's ORCID profile:  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9247-2766

 Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2025.04.025

 Abstract

This study investigates the impact of innovation on intellectual capital within the Saudi Electricity Company, using a descriptive-analytical approach. Data were collected through a questionnaire distributed to a sample of employees, and hypotheses were analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The results demonstrate that fostering an innovative organizational culture significantly enhances all three dimensions of intellectual capital. These findings support the argument that promoting innovation contributes positively to the development of intellectual capital components in the company.

 © 2025 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords

 Innovation, Intellectual capital, Organizational culture, PLS-SEM analysis, Saudi Electricity Company

 Article history

 Received 25 November 2024, Received in revised form 5 April 2025, Accepted 27 April 2025

 Acknowledgment

The authors would like to thank the Deanship of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research at Jouf University for funding and supporting this research through the initiative of DGSR and Graduate Studies Research Support (GSR) at Jouf University, Saudi Arabia.

  Compliance with ethical standards

  Ethical considerations

This study was conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Participation was voluntary, and confidentiality of responses was ensured.

  Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Al-Dahmashi SS and Al-Matari EM (2025). The impact of innovation on intellectual capital: Evidence from the Saudi Electricity Company. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 12(4): 232-240

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