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Development of the theory and method to manage organisation's intellectual capital
thesis
posted on 2010-11-09, 14:43 authored by Basilis MasoulasThis thesis adopts a "managing-developing" rather than a "measuring"
approach to the intellectual capital of organizations, demonstrating that the former is
compatible to the knowledge creation process while the latter is not. In this basis, in
the thesis the intellectual capital of an organization is defined as the combination of
the intangible assets of an organization that add value to its effort to achieve its goal,
referring to the skills, innovation, information, experience and employee attitudes an
organization possesses. This thesis proposes a systemic, systematic and humanoriented
approach to the management of intellectual capital which includes the
participative development of systems to support the management of skills (learning
systems), innovation (innovation systems) information (information systems),
experience (organizational memory systems) and attitude (selection, reward, career
development, retirement systems). The design of such systems needs to be based on
organizational requirements and in this thesis a formal method of requirements
definition is developed (ORDIC - Organizational Requirements Definition for
Intellectual Capital management). The thesis presents a number of case studies of the
application of this method in Mexican companies and international corporate groups
that demonstrate how the methods can be applied and in particular show the role of
users in the use of the component methods of ORDIC. The thesis provides evaluation
evidence of the success of the methods in creating systems to manage intellectual
capital.
History
School
- Design and Creative Arts
Department
- Design
Publisher
Loughborough UniversityRights holder
© Basilis MasoulasPublication date
1998Notes
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy of Loughborough University.EThOS Persistent ID
uk.bl.ethos.289638Language
- en
Supervisor(s)
Susan HarkerQualification name
- PhD
Qualification level
- Doctoral
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