Value added of intellectual capital in banks and the hysteresis effect

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the identification, illustration and description of patterns in the Value Added Intellectual Capital for banks in the long term. The study is part of the discussion on contemporary measures of organisational success and sources of value creation. Based on the subject literature, it is hypothesised that intellectual capital creates added value with some delay due to the operation of various external stimuli (e.g. financial market turbulence, economic slowdown), which may be explained in a logically coherent way using the hysteresis effect. The analysis covers empirical material obtained during broader research on a sample of banks listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in the years 2007-2017. As results of the study show, over the last decade, banks have evidently recorded the creation of added value in connection with the held intellectual capital resources. Its growth should, however, be interpreted with a large degree of caution. The occurrence of turbulence on the financial markets in the years 2007-2009 was not without impact on the results obtained.