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A Unified Framework for Multicriteria Evaluation of Intangible Capital Assets Inside Organizations

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It is of high importance for modern organizations the capability concerning the internal metrics used to evaluate intangible assets within them, as it enables better governance and competitive advantages. This paper presents a unified framework to measure, assess and develop intangible capital assets within organizations giving the possibility of enhancing decision making within the operational and strategic governance. Once identified the assets under investigation, the idea is to focus on a method based on a data model approach.

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Dell’Aversana, R. (2018). A Unified Framework for Multicriteria Evaluation of Intangible Capital Assets Inside Organizations. In: Bucciarelli, E., Chen, SH., Corchado, J. (eds) Decision Economics: In the Tradition of Herbert A. Simon's Heritage. DCAI 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 618. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60882-2_14

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