Modelling Intellectual Capital with Financial Inclusion: The Mediating Role of Economic Growth

Business sustainability within the economic system has been a great interest of policymakers. There are several dimensions to measure the economic performance of a nation. It is not easy to understand the growth process of countries without knowing new factors that emerged within the financial system. In today’s dynamic environment, there is a need to identify new relationships that explain the sustainable performance of a country. Therefore, the chapter discusses the importance of intellectual capital and financial inclusion in the economic system. The argument is that the rapid change in technology and industrialization has redefined the performance of the global economies. The traditional methods of measuring economic growth have somehow failed to capture newly developed relationships such as financial inclusion and intellectual capital. In this chapter, we developed a conceptual framework that measures the relationship between intellectual capital and financial inclusion through the mediating role of economic growth. The chapter also proposed useful guidelines for empirical testing.