RT Dissertation/Thesis T1 The impact of the intellectual capital in Portuguese and Galician SMEs in timber and related industries T2 El impacto del capital intelectual en las PYME portuguesas y gallegas en la madera y las industrias relacionadas A1 Silva, Amândio Francisco Caridade da K1 5311 Organización y Dirección de Empresas K1 5311.02 Gestión Financiera K1 3106.05 Productos AB This thesis aims at obtaining the doctoral degree in Economia e Empresa from the University of Vigo, Spain. It is proposed to study the impact that the intellectual capital has in the Portuguese and North Spanish (Galician) small and medium enterprises (SME) in the timber and related industries (furniture, paper, pulp, etc). It is expected that the results of this study will be good enough to be accepted for publication in leading scientific journals and would add substance to the existing literature and knowledge on the subject of intellectual capital. The main questions that will be aborded in this tesis and that should result in three articles are the following:Q.1: What is the magnitude of the impact of intellectual capital on the operations and profitability of SMEa in the timber and related industries?Q.2: Developing the intellectual capital improves the profitability of the SMEs in the timber and related industries?Q.3: What is the level of awareness of the importance of developing the intellectual capital in SMEs?Of course, the deepening of the study could alter the questions that are proposed to be answered here. YR 2020 FD 2020-07-21 LK http://hdl.handle.net/11093/1517 UL http://hdl.handle.net/11093/1517 LA eng DS Investigo RD 26-sep-2023