The Enterprise’ IC Management under the Digitalization

Advancing by means of Digitalization the Forth Industrial revolution stipulates the new opportunities for business and societies related to the usage of the enterprise’ Intellectual capital. Possessing the similar nature as the trends mentioned the very resource results to become a basic one it to provide a qualitative transformation of the mode of performance of the enterprises. The analysis of such tendencies, their interpretations in the specialized papers and the determination of the prospective directions of their further investigation relevant for both practitioners and scholars constitute an object of the present article. The analysis realized operated with various research methods of general type (analysis, synthesis, etc.) and the specific ones (content analysis, comparativistic tools and others). Their application proved the relevance of the integral approach towards the enterprise’ Intellectual capital under Digitalization to determine correctly its impact over the organizational performance in a whole. The authors revealed the insufficiency to limit the investigation with the exposure of main layers of the recourse formed these before the digitalization trend as well as its new element due to the trend mentioned and constituted in terms of Network capital only. Nowadays the more and more attractive to scholars’ research topicality considers poorly the effects of relationship mechanisms between various layers and elements of intellectual capital to impede the identification of the causal relationship while their interaction and its overall total with the intellectual capital contribution to the business and society development. Such an analysis constitutes a perspective direction for the further research of the subject.

digitalization, intellectual capital, human capital, relational capital, organizational capital, network, network management conceptions, network capital

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