Proceedings of 5th Asia-Pacific Business Research Conference 17 - 18 February, 2014, Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ISBN: 978-1-922069-44-3 The Moderating Effect of Management Ownership on the Relationship between Intellectual Capital Performance and Market Value of Company Parastou Aminiandehkordi*, Azlina Ahmad* *and Noradiva Hamzeh*** Intellectual capital is gaining prominence as one of the most important resources of competitive advantage for a company in today’s knowledge-based economy. Intellectual capital performance (ICP) has been found to positively contribute towards enhancing market valuation of a firm. However past studies have shown effective corporate governance mechanism is a pre-requisite to superior ICP and firm performance. Managerial ownership has been identified as an effective corporate governance mechanism to align the interests of shareholders and managers, thus contributing positively towards firm performance. This study examines the moderating effect of managerial ownership on the relationship between ICP and market value of companies. The findings showed that although ICP has a positive effect on market value, managerial ownership does not moderate the relationship, suggesting that risk aversion and managerial myopia may influence managerial decision on intellectual capital investment which may subsequently affect intellectual capital performance and firm value. 1. Introduction The market capitalization is one of the indicators in the financial sector for evaluating the development of a country (World Bank 2013). Based on market capitalization, Malaysia is still lagging behind developed markets in Asia such as Japan, Korea Republic and Hong Kong (World Bank 2013), Thus to realize its Vision 2020, Malaysia had initiated the Knowledge-based Economy Master Plan in September 2002 as the main vehicle to transform itself into a developed country by the year 2020. Evidences from past studies have shown that investment in intellectual capital can lead to an increase in performance, profitability and market value of a company (Chang 2007; Maditinos et al., 2011 and Wang 2011), which in turn contribute towards economic growth via increase in market capitalisation. Although intellectual capital can be a source of competitive advantage to the companies, the literature indicates the company managers due to their dependence on the company for their source of revenue are usually risk-averse (Vafeas and Theodorou, 1998). They prefer to support investment in tangible asset rather than intellectual capital, because the tangible assets are easier to monitor and control as well as more justifiable. Additionally tangible assets are associated with lower uncertainty and risk, which contribute towards strengthening the position of managers (Masulis 1988; Hunsaker 1999; Vafeas and Theodorou, 1998). According to Zhang (2011) managerial ownership would align the _____________ * Corresponding author Mrs.Parastou Aminiandehkordi, Master student in Accounting, Faculty of Accounting, National University of Malaysia. Email: p_aminian44@yahoo.com **Dr. Azlina Ahmad, Faculty of Accounting, National University of Malaysia, Email: Azlina @ukm.my ***Associate Prof Dr.Noradiva Hamzeh, Faculty of Accounting, National University of Malaysia, Email: adibz@ukm.my 1 Proceedings of 5th Asia-Pacific Business Research Conference 17 - 18 February, 2014, Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ISBN: 978-1-922069-44-3 interest of managers and shareholders towards increasing long term value of the firm, for example by investing in intellectual capital. Managerial ownership has been identified as an effective corporate governance mechanism to reduce the conflict between principle and agent (Singh and Davidson, 2003). Equity holdings make managers owners thus aligning the interests of managers and shareholder. Shareholder benefits from greater managerial ownership due to greater incentives on the managers part to increase firm value (Jensen and Meckling, 1976). Therefore, this study seeks to investigate the relationship between intellectual capital performance (ICP) and market value in the presence of managerial ownership. The extant literature shows a number of studies have been conducted on the effect of intellectual capital in creating competitive advantages such as profitability and market to book equity ratio (Clarke et al., 2011; Puntillo 2009; Wang 2011) and the effect of managerial ownership on ICP (Ahmed 2009) and firm value (Ahmed, 2009; Mueller and Spitz, 2002). What is yet to be examined is the moderating effect of managerial ownership on the relationship between ICP and market value of company. In line with resource based view (RBV), value IC as a resource depends on its efficiency or performance (Barney 1991). It means that the performance of IC indicates the value of IC; therefore this research considers the performance of IC or intellectual capital performance to measure IC and uses the VAIC™ model of Pulic (2000). The extent of acceptance of this model may be evidenced by a finding by Volkov (2012) who states that as of June 2012, VAIC model of Pulic (2000) has been used by 46 researches and has been cited by 2373 researchers. VAIC which indicates the firm’s intellectual ability or the performance of IC (Pulic 2000) stands for Value Added Intellectual Coefficient which recognizes the four components of value added resources, namely, Intellectual Capital Efficiency (ICE), Human Capital Efficiency (HCE), Structural Capital Efficiency (SCE) and Capital Employed Efficiency (CEE) (Pulic ,2000). There is not any accepted public definition and classification of IC (Canibano et al. 2000; Andriessen 2004 and Chu et al. 2011). Stewart (1997) described IC as “something that cannot be touched, although it slowly makes you rich”. Edvinsson and Malone (1997) defined IC as the entire knowledge of a firm which can be applied in conducting its businesses for the purpose of generating value for the company. Edvinsson and Malone (1997.11) have categorized IC into two broad sections. It comprises human capital (HC) and structural capital (SC). They defined HC as “the combination of knowledge, skill, innovativeness and ability of individual employees to meet the task at hand, company’s values, culture, and philosophy.” Structural Capital is defined as “the hardware, software, databases, organizational structure, patents, trademarks, and everything else of organizational capability that supports employees’ productivity. This study is expected to provide a clearer evidence of the moderating effect of managerial ownership on the relationship between ICP and market value. This paper is organized into four sections. The next section is a review of the related literature, followed by hypotheses development and research methodology. The last section provides the discussion and conclusions. 2 Proceedings of 5th Asia-Pacific Business Research Conference 17 - 18 February, 2014, Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ISBN: 978-1-922069-44-3 2. Literature Review and Hypotheses Development According to resource-based view, intellectual capital as a strategic resource with specifics characteristics such as valuable, rare, inimitable, and non-substitutable can contribute towards achieving competitive advantage resulting in increased market value. Intellectual capital plays an essential role in creating value via increased efficiency. For example a firm with highly skilled workers may help reduce production time which in turn helps reduce cost. This enables the firm to offer its products at lower costs or increase its profit margins thus resulting in higher earnings and market value for the firm (El-Bannany 2008). Numerous studies have been conducted to examine the effect of intellectual capital in creating competitive advantages such as more market capitalization. Chen et al.(2005)measured ICP based on VAIC raises a firm’s profitability and market value of companies in Taiwan Stock Exchange during 1992 to 2002. This is supported by Latif et al. (2012) in a comparative study between Islamic and conventional banks in Pakistan. Mousavi Shiri et al. (2012) found VAIC and all its component have a positive effect on market value added of Iranian companies. Furthermore, Riahi-Belkaoui (2003) believed that the companies with high level of investment in intellectual capital, in efficient markets will be assessed higher by investors as intellectual capital is regarded as a major factor that is needed by companies amid fierce competition, which would lead to an increase in market value and financial performance. In line with agency theory, Singh and Davidson (2003) found that managerial ownership reduces the conflict between shareholders and managers. Conflict arises because firm’s management focus more on short term benefits of protecting their position while shareholders place more importance on long term benefits of firm value maximization. Managerial ownership aligns the interest of managers and shareholders towards increasing long term value of the firm. This is supported by Zhang (2011) found that managerial ownership has a positive influence on intangible asset. Past studies have shown that managerial ownership is positively associated to ICP (Ahmed 2009) and firm value (Ahmed, 2009; Mueller and Spitz, 2002). However Warfield et al. (1995) argued that the positive impact of managerial ownership might invert at such time as it exceeds a certain threshold for example 25% as reported in their study. They believed that in line with the entrenchment hypothesis, managerial ownership above a certain threshold may cause the managers to focus on their self-interest and ignore the interests of minority shareholders. Generally, it can be concluded that the ICP has a significant effect on market value and managerial ownership has a significant effect on ICP, thus managerial ownership is expected to moderate the relationship between ICP and market value of the firm. The following hypotheses were developed to test the relationship: H1: VAIC has positive relationship to market value of a firm. H2: Managerial ownership has a positive moderating effect on the relationship between VAIC and market value of a firm. 3 Proceedings of 5th Asia-Pacific Business Research Conference 17 - 18 February, 2014, Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ISBN: 978-1-922069-44-3 3. Research Methodology Sample selection and data collection The preliminary sample consisted of 110 companies from 2009 to 2012. 11 companies were excluded from the sample as data on market value were not available, 47 companies were omitted because of negative book value (Firer and Williams, 2003) and negative VAIC (Chu et al. 2011) and 6 companies were excluded due to multivariate outliers (Tabachnik and Fidell, 2007). The final sample consisted of 46 companies over a period of 4 years, resulting in a total of 184 firm years. The data were extracted from Data Stream as well as annual reports obtained from the Bursa Malaysia website. Operationalization of variables: Dependent variable: The dependent variable is the market value measured based on the market-to-book value equity (MBE) ratio in line with (Soedaryono et al., 2012; Zéghal and Maaloul, 2010). Independent Variable: The independent variable is ICP measured based on VAIC™ model. Value added intellectual coefficient (VAIC) includes the sum of Human capital efficiency (HCE), Structural capital efficiency (SCE) and capital employed efficiency (CEE). The value added (VA) can be calculated as: VA = OP + EC + D + A, where OP= Operating Profit, EC = Employee Cost, D= Depreciation and A= Amortization Human capital efficiency (HCE) = VA / HC (Total salaries and wages for company) Structural capital efficiency (SCE) = SC / VA Structural capital (SC) = VA - HC Capital employed efficiency (CEE) = VA / CE Capital employed (CE) = book value of the net asset for a company Moderating variable; The moderating variable is managerial ownership measured based on the percentage of shares held by executive and non executive managers over total shares outstanding (Elyasiani and jia, 2010; Norman Mohd saleh et al., 2009). Control Variables; The three control variables are size measured based on log total assets (Banimahd et al. 2012; Latif et al. 2012; Majmumdar 1997), leverage (LEV) measured based on ratio of debt to total assets (Banimahd et al. 2012 ; Mousavi Shiri, et al. 2012) and Return on asset (ROA) measured based on earnings before interest and tax divided by total assets (Soedaryono et al. 2012; Bouden 2006 and Casta et al. 2007). Research model To test the research hypotheses, first, the effect of VAIC and its components on MBE is tested based on Model1.Then the moderating effect of managerial ownership on the relationship between VAIC and its components with MBE is tested. According to agency theory, when the management’s share reaches a specific level, further increase in level of ownership may offer managers with enough shares to follow their own benefit with no concern for declining company value (Cho 1998; McConnell and Servaes, 1990; Morck, Shleifer and Vishny, 1988). Consequently, it is hypothesized that managerial ownership 4 Proceedings of 5th Asia-Pacific Business Research Conference 17 - 18 February, 2014, Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ISBN: 978-1-922069-44-3 has nonlinear relationship with ICP and market value. According to Baron and Kenny (1986) and Cohen and Cohen (1983) if the impact of independent variable (VAIC and its component) on dependent variable (MBE) varies linearly or quadratically, with regards to the moderating variable (MO), the following Model 2 should be used. The test of moderation is indicated by the test of which X is VAIC and its components and is squared managerial ownership (MO) in these new models. Model1: Model2: Where; t = time 1........n = Market value Equity for the company i =Value Added Intellectual Coefficient for company i, its components (ICE, HCE, SCE) = Managerial ownership for the company i =Size for the company i = Financial Leverage for the company i = profitability for the company i CEE, 4. Analysis and Discussion Descriptive statistics Table 1 provides the descriptive statistics for the variables. Based on Table 1 HCE dominates the majority of intellectual capital efficiency, while CEE contributes minimally to VAIC (i.e., only around 8%). The mean of 0.376for HCE suggests that about 80% (0.376/ 0.467) of efficiency created by IC is related to the efficiency of human capital. The value of skewness and kurtosis indicates whether data has normal distribution. When the quantity of skewness range between −1 and 1, and kurtosis range between −1 and 1, the distribution of data is normal (HO et al., 2007; Peters, Joseph, and Garety, 1999). Therefore, considering the value of skewness and kurtosis in this research, the normal distribution of all variables are not meet, as a result, data were transformed into their logarithm. The result of correlation indicated the positive linear correlation between MO and IC and its components and non-significant positive correlation between dependent variable and independent variable. It does not mean MO and IC are correlated or dependent variable and independent variable are not related. Correlations do not specify causality and are not applied to make predictions, thus regression results should be analysis. The results rejected the use of pooled model in for all models. Husman test was used for selecting a suitable method between fixed and random effect model, According to this result, null hypothesis indicating the usage of random effect model is rejected and 5 Proceedings of 5th Asia-Pacific Business Research Conference 17 - 18 February, 2014, Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ISBN: 978-1-922069-44-3 Min Table1. Descriptive statistics after transforming data Max Mean Median Std. Variance Deviation Skewness Kurtosis LOGHCE 0.122 0.687 0.376 0.360 0.123 0.015 0.134 -0.584 LOGSCE -0.611 -0.100 -0.261 -0.248 0.105 0.011 -1.053 0.950 LOGCEE -0.913 -0.057 -0.419 -0.434 0.184 0.034 -0.077 -0.401 LOGICE 0.196 0.752 0.467 0.455 0.119 0.014 -0.033 -0.513 LOGVAIC 0.287 0.779 . 0528 0.517 0.096 0.009 0.244 -0.489 LOGROA -2.000 -0.556 -1.159 -1.178 0.286 0.082 -0.173 -0.239 LOGLEVE -3.155 -0.888 -1.556 -1.554 0.389 0.152 -0.984 2.131 SIZE 3.919 5.230 4.621 4.604 0.255 0.065 -0.038 0.312 LOGMBE -0.951 0.429 -0.027 -0.023 0.218 0.047 -0.281 1.023 MO 0.110 0.733 0.425 0.420 0.157 0.025 0.003 -0.586 Valid N (listwise) 184 fixed effect model is suggested for all models. Centered method is used for solving multicollinearity problem in Model 2 in line with Afshartous and Preston (2011), DurbinWatson (DW) statistic indicates lack of Auto-correlation in residuals for all models. Period weights (PCSE) method used for all models for capturing heteroskedasticity (Beck and Katz, 1995). Jarque-Bera test and histogram of the residuals indicated normal distribution of residuals in all models. Tables.2 and 3 provide a summary of regression result related to the effect of ICP on MBE and moderating effect of MO on relationship between ICP and its components with MBE. Based on Table.2, VAIC and its components (except CEE) have a significant positive effect on market value of firms at 5% level. LOGCEE is positive but non-significantly related to LOGMBE with coefficient value 0.042 and t-value 0.284. Which maybe explained by the very low level of the CEE component reported. From the above results, it can be concluded that generally intellectual capital (IC) is very effective in improving MBE. Table.3 shows the result of regression of moderating effect of MO on relationship between IC and MBE. The result shows that MO has non-significant effect on the relationship between IC and MBE (CMO2*CIV). The non-significant moderating effect of MO on the relationship between ICP and MBE means that managerial ownership dose not effect on ICP that contributes to MBE. These results do not support research hypotheses. The explanatory power of the above models (the adjusted ) is relatively high and general significance of the regressors is supported for all estimations in all models by F-statistic. Since, Prob (F-statistic) is zero for all models; it shows the models explain any variation in the dependent variable. 6 Proceedings of 5th Asia-Pacific Business Research Conference 17 - 18 February, 2014, Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ISBN: 978-1-922069-44-3 5. Summary and Conclusions This study investigated the moderating effect of managerial ownership on the association between intellectual capital performance (ICP) and its elements with market value of the companies listed on the ACE market of Bursa Malaysia for the period 2009 to 2012. The findings indicates a non-significant moderating effect of managerial ownership on the relationship between ICP and market value and rejects the conditions of moderation as suggested by Baron and Kenny (1986). The insignificant effect maybe is due to risk aversion and managerial myopia which may influence managerial decision on intellectual capital investments. This study has focused on ACE market companies; future studies can investigate the study topic on main market companies in Malaysia. Future research can applied another index of corporate governance to examine each component of corporate governance could be beneficial to comprehensively identify the value of each CG attributes impacting on ICP and relationship between ICP and MBE. 7 Proceedings of 5th Asia-Pacific Business Research Conference 17 - 18 February, 2014, Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ISBN: 978-1-922069-44-3 Table 2 Summary regression results of model 1 to 1d Model/IV Model1/LOGVAIC Model1a/LOGICE Model1b/LOGHCE Model1c/LOGSCE Model1d/LOGCEE Variable Coefficient t- Statistic Coefficient t-Statistic Coefficient t-Statistic Coefficient t-Statistic Coefficient t-Statistic IV 0.414** 2.430 0.378** 2.483 0.368** 2.519 0.426** 2.469 0.042 0.284 LOGLEVE -0.109** --2.078 -0.110** -2.107 -0.110** -2.108 -0.110** -2.120 -0.073 -1.417 LOGROA 0.035 0.648 0.039 0.737 0.038 0.705 0.050 0.964 0.082 1.524 SIZE -0.385*** -3.560 -0.388*** -3.590 -0.393*** -3.619 -0.357*** -3.450 -0.283*** -2.708 Adjusted R0.647 0.648 0.648 0.648 0.631 squared F-statistic 7.473 7.493 7.506 7.492 7.034 Prob(F-statistic) 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 Durbin-Watson 2.329 2.350 2.344 2.398 2.178 stat *** Significant at the 0.01 level. ** Significant at the 0.05 level. * Significant at the 0.10 level. IV is independent variable. Dependent Variable: LOGMBE. LOG is of variable. 9 Proceedings of 5th Asia-Pacific Business Research Conference 17 - 18 February, 2014, Hotel Istana, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ISBN: 978-1-922069-44-3 Table 3: Summary Regression Result of Model 2 to 2d Model/IV Variable CLLEVE CLROA CSIZE CMO CMO2 CIV CMO*CIV CMO2*CIV Adjusted Rsquared F-statistic Prob(Fstatistic) DurbinWatson stat Model2/LOGVAIC Coefficient tStatistic -0.105** -2.064 0.047 0.885 -0.363*** -3.395 -0.373*** -2.838 -0.099 -0.132 0.511** 2.580 0.345 0.304 -2.786 -0.478 0.664 Model2a/LOGICE Coefficient t-Statistic Model2b/LOGHCE Coefficient t-Statistic Model2c/LOGSCE Model2d/LOGCEE Coefficient t-Statistic Coefficient t-Statistic -0.105** 0.056 -0.361*** -0.353*** -0.373 0.481*** 0.859 -4.451 0.666 -0.105** 0.054 -0.367*** -0.352*** -0.348 0.466*** 0.801 -4.183 0.666 -0.097* 0.074 -0.312*** -0.363*** -0.428 0.453** 1.137 -4.824 0.662 7.464 0.000 7.543 0.000 7.544 0.000 7.407 0.000 7.535 0.000 2.452 2.494 2.485 2.500 2.303 -2.081 1.076 -3.424 -2.683 -0.502 2.825 0.861 -0.909 -2.080 1.036 -3.457 -2.685 -0.467 2.826 0.839 -0.881 -1.907 1.419 -3.059 -2.693 -0.585 2.463 0.925 -0.846 -0.075 0.089* -0.218** -0.334*** 0.015 0.045 -1.894** 0.397 0.666 -1.552 1.728 -2.165 -2.650 0.024 0.331 -2.425 0.126 *** Significant at the 0.01 level. ** Significant at the 0.05 level. * Significant at the 0.10 level. IV is independent variable. CMO is centred MO and computes by MO minus its average. CMO2 is centered MO2 and computes by MO2 minus its average. MO2 is MO*MO. CLOGVAIC is centred LOGVAIC and computes by LOGVAIC minus its average. CLOGICE is centred LOGICE and computes by LOGICE minus its average. LOGICE is logarithm of intellectual capital efficiency and computes by sum of LOGHCE and LOGSCE. CLOGHCE is centred LOGHCE and computes by LOGHCE minus its average. CLOGSCE is centred LOGSCE and computes by LOGSCE minus its average. CLOGCCE is centred LOGCCE and computes by LOGCCE minus its average. CMO* CLOGVAIC is multiply of CMO and CLOGVAIC. CMO *CLOGICE is multiply of CMO and CLOGICE. CMO *CLOGHCE is multiply of CMO and CLOGHCE. CMO* CLOGSCE is multiply of CMO and CLOGSCE. CMO2*CLOGVAIC is multiply of CMO2 and CLOGVAIC. CMO2*CLOGICE is multiply of CMO2 and CLOGICE.CMO2*CLOGHCE is multiply of CMO2 and CLOGHCE. 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