The Relationship between Intellectual Capital and Market Value of the Corporations Listed in Tehran Stock Exchange

Knowledge assets and intellectual capital are the major leverages for profitability and maintaining competitive advantages of corporations in today’s knowledge-based world. The difference between book value and market value of corporations, specifically since 1980’s onwards, which is analytically attributed to increased corporate investments in intellectual capital, indicates the importance of intellectual capital by itself. The purpose of this research is to investigate the association between the intellectual capital and the market value of corporations listed in Tehran Stock Exchange. The researchers used both “pulic’s model” and “modified pulic’s model” to measure intellectual capital. The population data sample was restricted to 130 corporations during 2005-2009. According to the results of testing the hypotheses through panel data least squares regression method, the intellectual capital has significantly positive correlation with the corporation’s market value. Moreover, the findings verified that “modified pulic’s model” presented more authoritative explanation than that of the preliminary “pulic’s model”. In the end, the research demonstrated that from among the various elements composing the intellectual capital, it was “human capital efficiency” that had the most significantly positive correlation with the corporation’s market value.