Abstract
This research developed a new integrated method for addressing the deficiencies and gaps generally found in past studies on benchmarking and for benchmarking intellectual capital (IC) in the underdeveloped domain of logistics. To resolve the lack of consideration of relationships among past benchmarking concepts and the impacts of their managerial factors, as well as to examine the wide range of elements and indicators of IC influencing the sustainable development of organizations, the proposed approach integrated the analytic network process and the concept of thinking and non-thinking assets with the generic benchmarking procedure. This new hybrid method was implemented in four commercial companies in courier service. The proposed method prioritized and identified the magnitudes of the factors focused upon, including the IC elements, and their performance measures by considering the fundamental characteristics of intangible assets. The obtained results highlight that management focuses on the IC of the best performer and other companies. This benchmarked outcome showed gaps and improvement as well as sustainable development opportunities for inferior logistics companies. The improved framework provides more systematic and specific benchmarking processes to consider, obtain, and compare the in-depth details of IC management. Moreover, ours is the first research on benchmarking that specifically focused on IC management in logistics service providers.
Highlights
Today, logistics has been empirically recognized as a critical process for organizations in the commercial or governmental sector
In 2017, this study used a case from four commercial logistics companies that are well-known express courier organizations operating in Thailand
It had the biggest growth among all logistics businesses [53] in Thailand, and, the intellectual capital (IC) management in the courier sector has never been studied in any academic research before
Summary
Logistics has been empirically recognized as a critical process for organizations in the commercial or governmental sector. Over the past several decades, a large number of logistics studies were broadly carried out to achieve both academic and practical advantages. This subject has received great attention from several perspectives, there are still very limited studies concentrating on intellectual capital (IC), especially on comprehensive management of this intangible asset [1]. Even though management of IC could bring several advantages to firms in both the logistics sector and other industries, there are still limited studies focusing on IC management in logistics domains [7]. No research has examined the benchmarking of IC management in logistics
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