A Systems View of Intellectual Capital

Gary S. Metcalf
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Chapter 20 in Synergy Matters, 2002, pp 115-120 from Springer

Abstract: Summary The intellectual capital movement, as it currently exists, generally seeks to harness human ideas the way that industry of the past harnessed physical energy. Given the nature of the economic system, this should not be unexpected. This is based, though, on a very mechanistic view of reality. What seems to lie outside the awareness of this movement is any conscious understanding of the fundamental nature of the economy as part of broader social systems, and the way in which knowledge and ideas, and their communication, are likely to reshape the economic system and its organizations, rather than become a tool of them. What is also in question at this point is the degree to which, in the presence of such awareness, new social systems can be consciously and purposefully created, in a way that minimizes exploitation and maximizes the dignity and value of each individual.

Keywords: Economic System; Intellectual Capital; Intangible Asset; Critical System; Tangible Asset (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1007/0-306-47467-0_20

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