英文摘要 |
This research aims at adopting the intellectual capital perspective and its analytical approach in the managerial practice of women benefit programs in social welfare organizations. The concept of intellectual capital has been widely applied to the business sectors, less attention has been paid to its applications on non-for-profit setting, which are chacterized as intangible-assets-intensive context. Despite the intellectual capital is considered the source of value creation, the possession of resources does not guarantee that organization can obtain its competitive advantages and therefore create value. In order to create value, organization’s resources need to be managed and deployed effectively and efficiently. This study is exploratory. By using an analytical approach, Intellectual Capital Navigator (ICN), this research is designed to conduct in-depth qualitative studies with six women benefit programs in six social welfare organizations, demonstrating the importance of needed resources and analyzing the resource transformation between and among human capital, organizational capital, relational capital, physical capital, and monetary capital. We found that intellectual capital resources are more important than traditional resources for woman benefit programs in the social welfare organizaions, particularly the professional capabilities of social workers and service quality are the most important. Moreover, the ICN analysis shows that the human capital contributed to organizational capital and relational capital more than getting from them, indicating that human capital is a value source but organizational capital and relational capital are value sinks. Therefore, the organizations should pay more managerial attention to the balance and symmetric transformation among resources when delivering woman benefit programs. The atoption of IC analytical approach into non-for-profit practice, such as women benefit programs, extends the application of intellectual capital management. The in-depth analysis of resource transformation also provides valuable practical insights for managing resources of the women benefit programs in the social welfare organizations. |