The Relationship Between Intellectual Capital And Innovative Performance On The Algerian Services Companies

It is rightly said by Drucker (1993) “ we are currently transitioning from industrial era to a knowledge era ,where the traditional factors of production of land ,labour and capital are being replaced by the creation of value through knowledge” . As Peter Drucker has said , in the knowledge era,the company needs to serve and nurture “the knowledge worker” but at the same time the knowledge worker needs the value creative processes and infrastructures of the organization, as well as conversation with other knowledge workers to laverage their knowledge. Intellectual capital can be defined as the „economic value‟ of three categories of intangible assets of a company-that includes human capital, structural capital and social capital collectively. Intellectual capital is viewed as a sub-set of intangible capital, where the term intangible relates to assets without physical existence and capital refers to assets retained by the organisation to contribute to future profits. Intangible resources are more likely to produce a competitive advantage because they often are rare and socially complex there by making them difficult to imitate. A company‟s intangible assets are increasingly crucial and positively related to innovative performance in today‟s knowledge economy This study examine the connection between the concepts of innovative performance and intellectual capital through an empirical study in the Algerian services companies. . The results show that there are a weak influence of the IC on the innovative performance this due to the lack of awareness of manager the important of IC to produce a innovative product.