...Marco Remondino; Gabriele D'Alauro Purpose This paper aims to analyse how the integrated value created by nonprofit entities (NPEs) promoting open innovation (OI) can be disclosed in the light of intellectual capital (IC) theory. Design/methodology/approach The research combines the literature...

...Elisa Carloni; Francesca Ceruti; Raffaele Silvestri; Melania Riefolo Purpose This study explores how SMEs design and manage sustainability alliances as intellectual capital mobilization mechanisms for signaling sustainability commitment to stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach We adopt...

...Shaofeng Wang; Hao Zhang Purpose This study investigates how mandatory artificial intelligence (AI) agent implementation, conceptualized as structural-capital deployment, paradoxically reconfigures human capital in cross-border e-commerce SMEs. Drawing on the intellectual capital (IC) literature...

...Silvana Revellino; Mirko Perano; Claudio Del Regno; Agim Mamuti Purpose This paper clarifies the circumstances under which merging Intellectual Capital (IC) and the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) becomes helpful in enhancing strategic performance management in turbulent environments characterized...

...Pier Franco Luigi Fraboni; Lucia Pizzichini; Elena Borin; Demetris Vrontis Purpose The study explores how corporate heritage practices support the development of firms’ intellectual capital (IC), addressing a research gap in the intersection of these two concepts. Design/methodology/approach...

...Yolanda Ramírez; Francisco Montero; Montserrat Manzaneque; María Carmen López-Taravilla Purpose This paper aims to investigate the extent of digital intellectual capital disclosure (DICD) through the websites of Spanish public hospitals and analyze the organizational, governance, financial...

...Raed Awashreh; Hassiba Almi Purpose This study examines how faculty strategically leverage human, social, knowledge and intellectual capital to enhance student motivation, engagement, learning outcomes and institutional transformation in resource-constrained higher education contexts. While prior...

... the Slow Food Movement codifies and circulates culturally embedded knowledge. The study integrates knowledge-based theory, stakeholder theory and circular intellectual capital to develop a conceptual framework explaining regenerative ecosystem dynamics. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts...

...Aliya Naseem; Simona Franzoni; Ofelia Palermo; Cristian Pelizzari Purpose This study extends foundational work on knowledge codification and Intellectual Capital by examining how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) transform Social Capital into Structural Capital, thereby bridging...

...Cristiana Enna Purpose This article addresses the persistent “how” gap in public sector intellectual capital (IC) research. Moving beyond cataloguing IC components, it investigates how IC is mobilized and reconfigured within complex knowledge-intensive public organizations. Using Italian courts...

...Mercedes Rodriguez-Fernandez; Fernando Isla-Castillo; Juan Herrera-Ballesteros Purpose This study aims to analyse the social and academic impact of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on documents and authors profiles from the perspective of Intellectual Capital (IC) theory. This overarching...

... is challenging. Grounded in the theory of dynamic capabilities, this study investigates the micro-mechanisms through which employees' AI application portfolio update capabilities drive creativity. We elucidate how intellectual capital mediates this relationship by bridging cognitive gaps, and how ambidextrous...

...Mohammad A.A. Zaid; Ayman wael AL-Khatib Purpose Grounded in multi-theoretical framework, this research aims to explore how corporate intellectual capital affects environmental sustainability disclosure, and whether CEO power moderates this nexus. Design/methodology/approach For analysis, we...

... fashion garments through modified production and consumption techniques. Despite its considerable relevance, there exists nascent literature about slow fashion’s production and consumption patterns and their linkage with intellectual capital (IC) theory aspects. Design/methodology/approach This study...

...Antonio La Sala; Ryan Fuller; Giuliano Maielli; Pietro Vito Purpose Resilience is typically theorized as an organizational virtue. Yet organizations may remain resilient while normalizing dysfunctional routines. This paper examines how configurations of intellectual capital (IC) can interrupt...

... options logic yields superior post-acqui-hire performance and adjudicates between them using intellectual capital contingencies. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on real options theory and the intellectual capital framework, this study frames the integration choice as a contest between exercising...

...Valentina Mallamaci; Daniele Virgillito; Melita Nicotra; Francesco Russo Purpose This paper examines the creation and utilization of the AMELIA research infrastructure, a data knowledge platform, to increase the level of ecosystem intellectual capital, in its three dimensions, human, structural...

...Bilal Iftikhar Makki; Sumran Ali; Nabeel Rehman; Feng Feng Purpose This study seeks to explain how corporate social responsibility (CSR) becomes a source of entrepreneurial opportunity recognition and open innovation by developing firms’ intellectual capital (human, structural, and relational...

...Yizhang Xie; Xiaoyan Wang; Ying Zhang; Biao Li; Yimin Yang Purpose This study examines how intellectual capital (IC) and its components – human, structural, and relational capital – foster green technology innovation (Gr) in traditional manufacturing firms. It further examines the intermediary...

...Roberto Aprile; Susanne Durst; Nasrin Gharibi Purpose The aim of this paper is to apply the intellectual capital (IC) framework proposed by Aprile et al. to other elite athletes in order to analyze the usefulness of this framework. More specifically, it will be tested on Bebe Vio...