AN INVESTIGATION ON INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL PUTTING EMPHASIS ON THE LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT MATURITY: CASE STUDY OF GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS IN KERMAN PROVINCE, IRAN

Intellectual capital has an influential role in helping an organization to reach its purposes. Hence, in the current study, the related factors with the concept of intellectual capital are investigated with an Emphasis on the Level of Knowledge Management Maturity regard organizations of Kerman province (Iran). The participants of this study consisted of two groups: the experts and the instructors of governmental management and the staff of executive organizations. To select the governmental management instructors all around Iran, 30 instructors who had the prerequisite criteria had been selected. Moreover, 381 staff were selected to participate in this study. The data analysis by SPSS (R) 22 and LISERL (R) 10 showed that the factors such as capabilities and qualifications, technical knowledge, attitudes, culture, structure, organizational learning, technical capital, social services, social excellence, social connection, partner relationship, connection with the media, and the organization image of intellectual capital have positive effect on intellectual capital considering the levels of maturity of knowledge management. (C) 2019 INT TRANS J ENG MANAG SCI TECH.