Measuring and managing intellectual capital through knowledge management (KM) .
            
has been perceived the most important issue in knowledge-intensive companies. @.
            
It has been suggested that a supportive corporate culture cornerstones not .
            
only a successful implementation of KM system but also the effectiveness of an .
            
organization. @It is essential therefore to enhance our knowledge in .
            
interrelationships among corporate culture, KM, intellectual capital and .
            
operating performance. @Using a sample of firms listed in TSE and OTC and a .
            
questionnaire as research tool, this thesis explores the typologies of .
            
corporate culture and KM, and their impacts on intellectual capital and .
            
financial performance.
            
The empirical evidence indicates that the attributes of corporate culture are .
            
significantly associated with the attributes of KM activities. @Both corporate .
            
culture and KM shed significant impacts on cognitive importance of intellectual.
            
capitals. @Firms with distinct corporate culture, placing more foci on human .
            
resource development, innovation and market competition tend to have more .
            
intensive knowledge management activities, information technology utilization, .
            
and exchange and lash of knowledge between the members of the organization. @.
            
Compared to firms with low innovative-bureaucratic culture, firms with high .
            
effective-supportive culture concentrate more on all aspects related to human .
            
capital and innovation capital.
            
Compared to other firms in the sample, firms with high flexibility-high degree .
            
of knowledge management activities focus more on human capital, innovation .
            
capital, and process capital. @Compared to firms with high control-low degree .
            
knowledge management activities, companies characterized with humanistic-.
            
medium degree knowledge management activities emphasize more on innovation .
            
capital.
            
The findings also show that both corporate culture attributes and components .
            
of human capital and innovation capital are significantly associated with .