INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL MANAGEMENT AWARENESS AND LEVEL IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IN ANKARA

Abstract

During the recent years the Intellectual Capital Management (ICM) literature has produced tens of models to support the various ICM activities, such as identification, measurement, valuation, acquisition and reporting Intellectual capital. However, the practice of applying these models seems to be a fairly new issue in many countries and organizations. Turkey is one of those countries who has just introduced with ICM. This study is a questionnaire based one that tries to find the awareness and level of ICM in Ankara region among manufacturing enterprises. Although awareness level is not sufficient there are some enterprises that have comprehensive framework in ICM.

Keywords

• Intellectual Capital Management (ICM), Awareness, Manufacturing industry

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