Conceptualizing Intellectual Capital as Language Game and Power

Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen

Conceptualizing Intellectual Capital as Language Game and Power

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Knowledge is deemed to be the increasingly important factor of production in creating economic and social value. Intellectual capital (IC) has emerged as a key concept encompassing this development. As such IC can be viewed as knowledge about knowledge, knowledge creation and how such processes might be leveraged into value. As a kind of knowledge in itself, however, IC is similar to other human constructs. IC has been created and modified by actors, cultures and history. Developing a critical understanding of IC requires a historical and contextual understanding of how IC has emerged and how IC is used. This paper, drawing mainly on insights from Foucault and Wittgenstein, conceptualises IC in very generalist terms as both language game and power in order to initiate such a critical understanding.

Translated title of the contribution	Intellektuel kapital som sprogspil og magt
Original language	English
Title of host publication	Critical Management Studies Proceedings 2005
Number of pages	17
Publisher	Waikato Managment School
Publication date	2005
Publication status	Published - 2005
Event	Critical Management Studies Conference - Cambridge, United Kingdom Duration: 4 Jul 2005 → 6 Jul 2005 Conference number: 4

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Conference	Critical Management Studies Conference
Number	4
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Cambridge
Period	04/07/2005 → 06/07/2005

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