The Importance of Knowledge Waste for Intellectual Capital Management and Enterprise Performance

Companies look to be ahead in its segment, or remain in the market. Therefore, it is necessary to obtain competitive advantage, going to have to continuously improve their management strategies. One of these is directly related to how innovative production processes are and how well they are managed, resulting in the launch of new portfolio of projects equal or superior to those previously produced. For this, intellectual capital and its knowledge are fundamental and its wastage management is a factor that could be determinant. Scholars sustains that the effective management of people planning must be a part of overall corporate strategy. But, how about the knowledge waste? In this context, the research highlight the problem associated with the performance of intellectual capital, may be impacted, or not by the use of knowledge in part or in whole process, the loss and/or forgetfulness, or use knowledge that does not add value for the company, its customers consequently. This work researched the databases: EBSCO; Emerald; Compendex; Scopus; ISI; and Wiley that occasioned in 506 articles which were systematically analysed, resulting in this theoretical article that presents the main references on the subject and a scientific essay regarding the importance of managing the intellectual capital knowledge waste. We concluded that managing the forms of knowledge waste, it is expected an improvement of performance and competitive advantage.