Intellectual Capital as a Generator of Innovation in Companies: A Systematic Review

Nejjari, Zakaria; Aamoum, Hanane

doi:10.18510/hssr.2020.8158

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“…Wu et al (2008) claim that intellectual capital increased the innovative performance of an organisation. A company may not be able to generate innovation if it does not recognise intellectual capital as a fundamental part of the organisation (Nejjari and Aamoum, 2020). Darroch (2005) argue that organisations that can effectively manage information are more innovative.…”

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A new theoretical approach to intellectual capital: Meta-synthesis definitions of innovative literacy

Yüksel

Gök

Özer

et al. 2021

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PurposeThe importance of innovation has drastically increased across diverse academic and industrial fields. Innovation has been considered an outcome of intellectual capital management. The role of innovative literacy in intellectual capital management needs to be understood. Employees at all levels of the organisation carry out managerial and/or technical innovation activities by integrating their knowledge (with other members, including researchers and developers) and innovative attitude in line with the organisational goals. This study focuses on the methodological approaches to intellectual capital components at a conceptual level, based on the framework of innovative literacy, which is not prominent in the literature.Design/methodology/approachA meta-synthesis analysis was conducted, examining published articles from 1990 to 2016 based on selected keywords. The meta-synthesis analysis explored the concept of innovation literacy by revealing some of the relationships involved in intellectual capital performance.FindingsThe findings point to gaps and methodological weaknesses in innovative literacy research and provide insights for future research.Research limitations/implicationsWhile the findings of this study are useful, there are some limitations and recommendations for future research: One limitation of this study arises from the selection of the articles used in meta-synthesis analyses; these were published during the period 1990–2016. An expansion of the article selection to include articles published before 1990 can be useful to better understand the vision on innovation and intellectual capital. This research fills a conceptual gap in the literature. However, since this concept is evaluated using the human, customer and structural components of intellectual capital, researchers in the future can evaluate this concept with other components of intellectual capital. Finally, this research does not present a hypothesis on the relationship between innovative literacy and intellectual capital.Originality/valueThis study provides a novel conceptual view of integrating theories for ensuring sustainability of intellectual management and innovative literacy by synthesising findings from academic studies.

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A new theoretical approach to intellectual capital: Meta-synthesis definitions of innovative literacy

Yüksel

Gök

Özer

et al. 2021

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Influencia del capital intelectual en la innovación: una perspectiva al nivel del individuo

Román

2020

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Introduction: The influence of intellectual capital on innovation has frequently been studied at the organizational level with the perceptions that individuals have towards their employer; however, little attention has been given to the level of the individual with employees' perceptions of themselves. Therefore, this work aims to measure the influence that intellectual capital has on the intention of innovation at the individual level with a data collection instrument based on self-perceptions.Method: Through a case study, 97 questionnaires were applied to employees of a large service company in the city of Tampico in the month of December 2019. The observations were then treated with a structural equation model based on the analysis of variance with Smartpls software. The present investigation chose the population under study based on a census.Results: Intellectual capital has a positive and significant influence through 2 of its components (structural and relational capital) on the intention of innovation at the individual level.Discussion or Conclusion: The main component of intellectual capital (human capital) did not influence the intention of innovation at the individual level and it can be explained based on previous approaches at the organizational level and by the characteristics of the company. On the other hand, it was shown that the perspective of the individual based on self-perceptions can be valid to measure the relationship between intellectual capital and innovation.

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La función mediadora de la capacidad absortiva en la relación entre el capital intelectual y la innovación en los institutos de educación superior del sur de Tamaulipas

Román

Vargas

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2021

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Introducción: en la actualidad, la innovación en las organizaciones es demandada de una forma sin precedentes. Si bien el capital intelectual (CI) ha sido señalado como uno de sus detonadores, un paso adelante es entender el rol que tienen otras variables en esta relación. Por lo anterior, el objetivo principal de la presente investigación es determinar la función mediadora de la capacidad absortiva (CA) en la relación entre el CI y la innovación organizacional en institutos de educación superior del sur de Tamaulipas. Método: de los 31 institutos de educación superior existentes en el sur de Tamaulipas se seleccionaron aquellos que tienen menos de 50 empleados, reduciéndose a 27 escuelas. En estas instituciones se aplicaron 92 cuestionarios a docentes en el primer semestre del año 2020 para, posteriormente, aplicar un modelo de ecuaciones estructurales con la técnica PLS. Resultados: la evidencia confirma la función mediadora de la CA en la relación entre el CI y la innovación organizacional. Así mismo, los resultados permiten observar un efecto positivo y significativo de las variables CI y CA sobre la innovación organizacional. Discusión: el resultado amplía el conocimiento de la función mediadora que tiene la CA en la relación entre el CI y la innovación organizacional; de la misma forma, sugiere que, en la medida en que se pueda controlar este efecto de la CA, se podría favorecer la innovación.

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Intellectual Capital as a Generator of Innovation in Companies: A Systematic Review

Cited by 3 publications

References 59 publications

A new theoretical approach to intellectual capital: Meta-synthesis definitions of innovative literacy

A new theoretical approach to intellectual capital: Meta-synthesis definitions of innovative literacy

Influencia del capital intelectual en la innovación: una perspectiva al nivel del individuo

La función mediadora de la capacidad absortiva en la relación entre el capital intelectual y la innovación en los institutos de educación superior del sur de Tamaulipas

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