Meta Analysis of the Relationship Between Intellectual Capital and Organization Performance

How much does intellectual capital improve organization performance? Is there any discrepancy of their relationship among different situation? Furthermore, what kind of discrepancy? All of these have been the focus problem of the innovation management academia that the relationship between intellectual capital and organization performance. Based on the systematic search of relative empirical literature and sifting of data, this paper acquires 55 effect values and makes use of the method of Meta-analysis to a quantitative comprehensive analysis. The results show that there is a positive effect on organization performance made by intellectual capital. Moreover, it also offers a proof that SMEs' influence on organization is more significant than large size companies' as well as "after 2008" and "before 2008". Also, we find industry difference surprisingly make little impact on organization performance.