지적자본 구성요인간의 관계에 관한 탐색적 연구: S기업의 경우

This study aims to examine the relationship between the components of intellectual capital that are required for the companies as the tools of management of intellectual capital. It is also to provide utilizable fundamentals useful for design and utilization of intellectual capital measurement model, as well as to establish the base for confirmation and prediction of the change of intellectual capital according to consecutive flow of time, not a temporal one. To satisfy these aims, this study was conducted for the subjects of 187 employees from S high-tech company. Based on antecedent studies, intellectual capital was classified into human, structural, innovational and customer capital, and structural and innovational capitals were designed as the research model that will play an intermediary role between human and customer capitals. After reliability and validity of this research model were verified, the relationship between individual capitals, sub-components of intellectual capital, was examined through path analysis. Analysis of S company showed that human capital had statistical significance with innovational and structural capitals and that innovational capital had statistical significance with customer capital. It also showed that innovational and structural capitals had significant mediating effects on human and customer capitals. Finally, based on these results, the practical suggestions for intellectual capital and the limits to study were discussed.