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The Importance of Intangible Assets in the Hotel Industry: The Case of Croatia and Slovenia

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  • Mateja Jerman
  • Sandra Janković

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Studies show an increasing importance of intangible assets (hereinafter IA) and a positive relationship between IA and company performance. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the importance of IA for Croatian and Slovene hotel companies and to find out whether companies with a higher share of intangibles are also more profitable. The analysis is based on publicly available financial statements for the five-year period, from 2011 to 2015. The results show that the average share of IA presented in the balance sheets of the analysed hotel companies is low in both countries. Moreover, we could not find a statistically significant relationship between the share of IA and the selected financial performance indicators. The results of our study show that despite the emphasised importance of IA in literature, the publicly available financial data of the selected hotel companies provides very limited information on IA for external stakeholders. JEL Codes - L83; M40

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  • Mateja Jerman & Sandra Janković, 2018. "The Importance of Intangible Assets in the Hotel Industry: The Case of Croatia and Slovenia," Scientific Annals of Economics and Business (continues Analele Stiintifice), Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, vol. 65(3), pages 333-346, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:aic:saebjn:v:65:y:2018:i:3:p:333-346:n:111
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    Keywords

    intangible assets; hotel industry; financial performance; Slovenia; Croatia;
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    JEL classification:

    • L83 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Sports; Gambling; Restaurants; Recreation; Tourism
    • M40 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - General

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