Aplicação do capital intelectual: um estudo de caso

Abstract

This study is based on the perception that man, with its intellectual capacity, is a key part for development of organizational factors production and looks for investigate the mechanisms that may be used in favor of organizational knowledge formation. Beginning on comprehension of knowledge and its forms of presentation - tacit and explicit - and that it can be developed, stored and restrained by the company, instead of being only owned by employee, individually, to transform into a collective, shared collection. Based on bibliographical research analyzing authors considerations as Brescianni Filho (1999), Drucker (2002), Nonaka & Takeuchi (1997) and Stewart (1998), Edvinsson & Malone (1998), among others, this study aims at to establish this contribution that knowledge can offer, for organization evolution, by understanding a gap between knowledge acquired by these individuals, through its formations, experience acquired and know-how that contribute for company's growth and sustainability, propitiating the context to investigate the forms of intellectual capital management, not only in conceptual teems, but also in practical manners. Thus, the work promotes the case study of a company located in Caucaia, Ceará, in which, beyond searching to identify its intellectual capital profiles, actions and tools that are currently used by the organization to stimulate it development, it searches also evaluate its strengthens and opportunities of improvement, at the same time that investigates the practical use of the concepts throughout the study.