Assessing intellectual capital management by fuzzy TOPSIS


Hossein Jannatifar, Mohammad KazemKeshvar Shahi and Javad Siahkali Moradi


Intellectual capital is a type of asset measuring ability of economic agency in order tomake wealth. These assets do not have physical and objective nature and are intangible assets being achieved through utilization of relative assets with human resources, organizational operation and foreign relations from economic agency. Measuring this issue is important from intra-organizational and extra-organizational views. In this paper, we present survey based on Fuzzy TOPSIS to find important factors influencing intellectual capital management. The proposed model of this paper considers different factors, which exist in the literature and prioritize them based on different criteria. The results of our survey identified seven items as the most influencing factors.


DOI: j.msl.2012.06.022

Keywords: Models of evaluating intellectual capital management ,Fuzzy TOPSIS ,Criteria of suitable model

How to cite this paper:

Jannatifar, H., Shahi, M & Moradi, J. (2012). Assessing intellectual capital management by fuzzy TOPSIS.Management Science Letters, 2(6), 1991-2000.


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