Guest editorial

In 1983, Peter Russell presciently described the world as a global brain with an increasing number of connection networks and nodes. Dumay and Edvinsson (2013) mention Russell's description, and point out that the Internet now connects around five billion brains, integrating knowledge work across the globe. They also argue that knowledge is essentially a “social process” meaning that the interconnections facilitated by the Internet are crucial in expediting organizational knowledge flow. Knowledge is an organizational asset that contributes to organizational value (Sen, 2019). To capture the dimensions of this knowledge asset within organizations, the term intellectual capital...