the role of intellectual capital in facilitating knowledge management practices

successful implementation of knowledge management fororganizations requires a systematic and comprehensive perspective aboutvarious organizational factors. appropriateness of these factors and theirintegration and coordination is a vital perquisite for implementingknowledge management effectively. the primary purpose of the researchis investigating the effect of three fundamental aspects of intellectualcapital– human capital, structural capital and relational capital– on fourstages of knowledge management practices (knowledge creation, storage,application and sharing). the data collection instrument is questionnaireand the research method is descriptive and corelational. the populationstudied in the research consists of managers and senior experts of thegovernment state of one of the south states of iran. a sample of 120subjects was selected by simple random sampling. data obtained isanalyzed using correlation coefficient method and structural equationsmodeling. according to the research findings there are significantrelationships between these intellectual assets and knowledgemanagement practices. these findings support the necessity of preparingthe perquisites of effective implementation of knowledge management.accordingly, an organization characterized by more developedintellectual capitals can benefit from knowledge management initiatives.