This paper details an empirical pilot study that explores the development of several conceptual measures and models regarding intellectual capital and its impact on business performance. The objective of this pilot study is to explore the development of items and constructs through principal components analysis and partial least squares (PLS). The final retained, subjective measures and optimal...

Variously referred to as intellectual capital, intellectual property, knowledge assets, or business intelligence, corporate knowledge is now being viewed as the last and only sustainable untapped source of competitive advantage in business. Unlike other forms of capital—land, equipment, labor and money—knowledge is theoretically infinite. There’s always a new idea waiting to be discovered—new w...

The primary objective of this study is to verify the effects of the accumulation of intellectual capital on organizational performance of Taiwan-listed IC design houses; while using productivity as the moderator, and interviewing management staff of section-supervisor level and above of these design houses as the research subjects. The simple Random Sampling method is used to sample the populat...

The changing business scenario in the logistics service market is affecting the development of relationships with customers and the continuous adaptation of service offering. In this context, knowledge management and intellectual capital are potentially successful assets for developing and improving competitive capabilities of logistics service companies. In order to supply more complex and kno...

In accordance with the resource-based view and the activity-based view, sustainable competitive advantages are mainly due to core knowledge that, together with tangible and (especially) intangible resources, develops competitive products and services through the appropriate activities and processes of the value chain. Strategic Benchmarking of Intellectual Capital (SBIC) is a knowledge-based st...

Intangible assets form part of the true value of organisations. These assets are produced from various forms of capital other than financial capital, which are located in the intellectual, structural and customer domains of organisations. This paper reports the findings from 15 cases from an empirical study of large UK service organisations to which we applied the concepts of social, intellectu...

In the knowledge based economy, organisations are making every effort to accumulate their intellectual capital (IC) because their future prosperity tends to depend on IC instead of traditional physical assets. Therefore, they are willing to audit and measure IC and make it transparent to management. Since intellectual capital is hard to measure using standard accounting practices a simple metho...

This study aims to verify the influence of balanced scorecard implemented by Taiwan LED-listed companies on the accumulation of the intellectual capital with organizational commitment as an interference variable, management of human resource, finance, production and marketing departments and staff of production departments as research subjects. This study uses simple random sampling to select s...

This article’s main objective was to present a model for measuring research capacity from an intellectual capital-based approach for Colombian higher education institutions ( Instituciones de Educación Superior – IES), forming part of the national science and technology system, in the sense that around 90% of Colombian research groups belong to it. The model should lead to identifying IES capac...