<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Intellectual capital started to raise and become a focal point of many businesses as they started invest in their own knowledge based activities and recognize its importance. In today’s world can be observed a more dynamic, flexible and growth oriented business environment than ever. Thus, the need for an increased amount of intangible assets in businesses lead to the recognition of the intellectual capital as a competitive advantage and strategic asset. Due to its expanding importance and relevance a significant number of measurement, valuation and evaluation methods were developed. Consensus regarding different methods was not yet reached, but all these methods are designed to help to get an approximation of the reality, thus contributing in short-term and long-term decision making. The aim of the paper is to assess the level of intellectual capital evaluation practices in multinational IT companies and IT SMEs in Romania. The study is questionnaire based and represents a mix of quantitative and qualitative research. Overall, although the challenge of intellectual capital evaluation remains significant, this study leads to the opportunity to identify evaluation patterns, best practices and a short list of useful evaluation indicators for businesses which already are or could be implemented in the near future.</p></abstract>

Intellectual capital started to raise and become a focal point of many businesses as they started invest in their own knowledge based activities and recognize its importance. In today’s world can be observed a more dynamic, flexible and growth oriented business environment than ever. Thus, the need for an increased amount of intangible assets in businesses lead to the recognition of the intellectual capital as a competitive advantage and strategic asset. Due to its expanding importance and relevance a significant number of measurement, valuation and evaluation methods were developed. Consensus regarding different methods was not yet reached, but all these methods are designed to help to get an approximation of the reality, thus contributing in short-term and long-term decision making. The aim of the paper is to assess the level of intellectual capital evaluation practices in multinational IT companies and IT SMEs in Romania. The study is questionnaire based and represents a mix of quantitative and qualitative research. Overall, although the challenge of intellectual capital evaluation remains significant, this study leads to the opportunity to identify evaluation patterns, best practices and a short list of useful evaluation indicators for businesses which already are or could be implemented in the near future.

Assessment of the intellectual capital evaluation practices in Romanian IT companies

The Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence

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Intellectual capital started to raise and become a focal point of many businesses as they started invest in their own knowledge based activities and recognize...

Assessment of the intellectual capital evaluation practices in Romanian IT companies

Published Online: Nov 29, 2019

Page range: 870 - 882

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/picbe-2019-0076

Keywords
Intellectual capital, SME, multinational company, evaluation methods

© 2019 Cynthia Bianka Incze et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Assessment of the intellectual capital evaluation practices in Romanian IT companies

Published Online: Nov 29, 2019

Page range: 870 - 882

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/picbe-2019-0076

KeywordsIntellectual capital, SME, multinational company, evaluation methods

© 2019 Cynthia Bianka Incze et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Intellectual capital, SME, multinational company, evaluation methods