The Ambiguous Relationship of Leadership and Intellectual Capital: Understanding how Intellectual Capital is Developed (pp 35-44)
Claudia Müller and Margit Raich
University of Innsbruck, Austria
claudia.mueller@uibk.ac.at , margit.raich@uibk.ac.at

ABSTRACT

Intellectual Management deals with these interactions between all resources, tangible and intangible to create maximum value. Leadership plays an important role when turning knowledge within an organization into Intellectual Capital. Therefore it is of major interest to consider and evaluate the relationship as well as possible synergies between Intellectual Capital and Leadership to improve organizational processes and performance.

The context of Leadership is diverse and expressed in organizational dynamics like culture, working groups, processes, structures, products and services etc. Being part of Intellectual Capital itself Leadership is an important factor for the future competitiveness of an organization. To explain a company's continued success it seems useful to examine the influence of Leadership on other parts of the Intellectual Capital. This process must be deemed gently because of the complexity of relations, causes and effect.

This article aims at showing the importance of Leadership in the development and establishment of Intellectual Capital. Special emphasis is laid on Leadership's influence on other intangible assets an enterprise owns and on the special relationship between Leadership and those other part of Intellectual Capital. A case study is presented in which the GABEK method was used to visualize these interactions. Based on the results of the case the current state of art to measure leadership within the existing IC- methodologies is evaluated and implications for further research are given.

Keywords: Knowledge, Intellectual Management, Leadership, Organizational Processes, Measurement