[01] Jaber Moghadampour, Ph. D Candidate of Futures Studies, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran. [02] Hamed Bordbar, Master of Pubic Administration, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. [03] Behzad Nazemipour, Master of Pubic Administration, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran.

Undoubtedly, 21st century is the time of accelerating changes and broad threats in national and international. To guarantee and keep on their life, organizations and communities need to distinguish them from others, to achieve a competitive advantage and, ultimately, to stabilize that advantage. The key tool to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage is knowledge. Stresses by organizations, entities and public institutes on knowledge as an intangible asset indicate the importance of such phenomenon. Intellectual capital is an intangible asset that its value is not mitigated by higher uses. Organizations attempt to acquire profit by relying upon such critical and strategic instrument. The aim of present paper is genealogy of intellectual capital and studying different aspects of such important phenomenon and reviewing models/approaches assigned to it.

Intellectual Capital, Relational Capital, Human Capital, Structural Capital

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