KNOWLEDGE TACITNESS AND RENEWAL CAPITAL

Abstract

Organizational ability to create and successfully manage knowledge, in its different forms, has become the basis of superior organizational performance and sustainable competitiveness. Nowadays, especially in developed economies, the importance of knowledge and intangible resources, i.e., intellectual capital, is rapidly increasing. The intangibles have a dominant role and gradually are replacing physical resources as the most important production factors of organizational success. Many studies gave significant findings in the field of intellectual capital measurement and its conceptualization, but there still is not a worldwide consensus on the dimensions of intellectual capital. Previous research focused mainly on traditional intellectual capital dimensions—human, relational, and structural capital—neglecting organizational renewal capability as a dimension of intellectual capital. There are no systematic findings on whether there are interrelationships of traditional intellectual capital dimensions in transition economies. This paper addresses and empirically tests the complementary role of traditional intellectual capital dimensions in organizational renewal, in the context of a transition economy. Primary data were collected using previously psychometrically validated questionnaires from 224 organizations in the Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS‐SEM) was used to test hypothesized relationships. Research findings suggest that renewal capital has a significant role. Furthermore, it demonstrates the intensity of relational and structural capital connection with knowledge renewal, highlighting the significance of different forms of knowledge in organizational renewal. Managers can find some useful directions to efficiently manage intellectual capital and to be aware of the presence of knowledge resource interrelationships and their importance for organizational renewal.

Keywords

• pls‐sem
• renewal capital
• intellectual capital