Intellectual capital management: Intellectual capital in different fields and its components

Abstract

The purpose of our article is to definethe concept of intellectual capital, to talk  about its history, its models of measurement, the components that characterize it, its impact  on organizations, and lastly how it is manifested in different fields and its relationship with  knowledge management , that is all to highlight its importance in an economy dominated by  the creation and diffusion of knowledge, since the role of intellectual capital is indelible,  especially with the increase in overall corporate investment in IC - and because of its  economic characteristics, notably its intangible nature, itss value inscreased, it also has  characteristics that are, by definition, growth-enhancing, and permit to establish evidences of  a link between investment in this intellectual capital to growth and changes in productivity.