... then supports the importance of community aspects in fostering IC performance. In this light, it appears to facilitate knowledge interaction and interrelationship networks rather than accentuate possible pre-existing groups’ rivalry. The results are inferred from a single case study, and so the reader...

...Heidi Olander; Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen; Pia Heilmann Purpose – Human resources in knowledge intensive industries create the basis for continuing innovation and subsequent firm performance. At the same time, they pose risks for the competitiveness of the firm: unwanted leaking of knowledge...

... in selection for managing intangibles at the country level. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) defines the knowledge-based economy as an economy directly based on the production, distribution, and use of knowledge and information (OECD, 1996). This new economy, as opposed...

...Vincenza Esposito; Ernesto De Nito; Mario Pezzillo Iacono; Lucia Silvestri Purpose This article sets out to investigate the relationship between performance management systems (PMSs) and knowledge in public universities. In particular, this paper intends to verify how different choices related...

..., how this activity contributes to knowledge creation in the JFFs, and how investee company knowledge creation is affected by the JFFs. Design/methodology/approach The research employed a multi‐case design, using four JFF cases. The investigation was performed in terms of Nonaka and Toyama's “theory...

...Tomas Hellström; Kenneth Husted This paper argues that knowledge mapping may provide a fruitful avenue for intellectual capital management in academic environments such as university departments. However, while some research has been conducted on knowledge mapping and intellectual capital...

...James Guthrie; Ulf Johanson; P.N. Bukh; P. Sánchez Examines the new challenges that have been posed by the information society and the new demands posed on management. The term “knowledge‐based economy” has become universal, the rules of business are being rewitten and the industrial era enterprise...

...; and the way the firms develop IC management and IC reporting. We propose that culture might affect the assumptions of knowledge as well as the creation and the adoption of new knowledge. Thereby culture may determine the emergence of IC management and reporting. However, there are no national cultural...

...Manuel García‐Ayuso An overwhelming literature on intangibles has been published over past three decades. Based on the evidence provided by recent research studies and the experiences of companies and policy makers this article provides a summary of our current knowledge on intangibles and suggests...

... on the knowledge value chain, and concludes by examining some of the challenges for the European policy community, based on the preliminary results of the PRISM research initiative. One important outcome of the explosion of computing power and connectivity in the last quarter of the 20th century is that it has...

...Stefan Thorbjørnsen; Jan Mouritsen On the basis of three examples of intellectual capital statements that make the individual its central figure, this article discusses the role of individuals in knowledge creation. After all, it is often claimed that the individual is the “container” of knowledge...

...Jack Wood Understanding the concept of a knowledge‐based economy; having a vision to make a new knowledge economy competitive; and creating and implementing a strategy to achieve that vision, would all seem to be fundamental steps for any economy striving to compete in the new global knowledge...

...Waymond Rodgers This article provides a framework of classifying and valuing knowledge‐based assets for possible future presentation along with the historical‐cost basis financial statements. Further, this paper provides a definition and classification for knowledge‐based assets, provides reasons...

...P.N. SubbaNarasimha; Sohel Ahmad; Sudhirkumar N. Mallya How efficient are firms at utilizing their technological knowledge stocks? In this paper we focus on a firm's breadth and depth of technological knowledge and investigate their differential effects on two performance measures: return...

...Darwin P. Hunt Knowledge is often defined as a belief that is true and justified. This definition has led to its measurement by methods that rely solely on the correctness of answers. A correct or incorrect answer is interpreted to mean simply that a person knows or does not know something...

...Alton Chua Examines the influence of social interaction on the process of knowledge creation. A cross‐sectional study was conducted in an Institute of Higher Education to determine the relationship between the level of social interaction and the quality of the knowledge created. The knowledge...

... business, known as intangible assets or intellectual capital. As a result, there is a huge value gap and distortions between a business entity value as reported in the financial statements with the value put by investors on the stock market or even in merger and acquisitions cases. In the new knowledge...