104 research outputs found
Foreword: investigating the role of intellectual capital in today's business landscape
No full textPurpose – Organizations are increasingly aware that to face complexity and uncertainty in today's business landscape, it is important to properly exploit, combine, and continuously develop their intellectual capital (IC). In this introduction to the special issue the aim is to develop some theoretical and managerial reasons explaining the importance of IC to achieve business excellence; then, to call for renewed analysis in the IC research stream aimed to investigate what are the new key intellectual capital dimensions and traits to be better developed and managed in order to deal with the fluidity of business, uncertainty, crisis, change, turbulence and high competitive pressure.
Design/methodology/approach – The approaches, evidences and insights discussed in this introduction are largely based on the discussion of the topics of the conference “International forum on knowledge assets dynamics” organized in June 2010 in Matera, Italy. At this conference, leading experts discussed the importance of intellectual capital for organizational business excellence in the twenty-first century, the new IC key-value drivers to manage in order to face emergent competitive scenarios, and research and management practices for addressing complexity, uncertainty and changes of today's business landscape.
Findings – The outcomes of this introduction and the contributions to the special issue reflect the emerging discussion about the role of IC management constructs. This discussion is largely focused on the importance of translating IC management within organizational components for achieving business excellence, highlighting approaches and tools in different contexts of analysis.
Originality/value – This introduction as well as all the contributions to the special issue deal with different aspects, which are important in the discussion of the role played by IC in achieving organizational business excellence as well as the approaches, tools, methods and techniques to better disentangle the mechanisms by which IC dimensions, separately or interdependently, contribute to improve companies' organizational performance
Intellectual Capital and Regions: Origins, Theoretical Foundations, Decision-makers Implications
No full textResearchers are increasingly investigating the strategic management of knowledge assets and Intellectual Capital (IC) for a company's performance improvement. We look instead at the role and the relevance of IC at the regional level. Sharing a knowledge-based approach to IC and through an intensive and structured literature review, this paper examines the concept of IC in the local systems and regional studies research streams and provides an analysis of the origins and the theoretical foundations of IC and its related components. A clear understanding of the concept is useful both to develop a theory about IC at the regional level and to help regional decision-makers to activate and drive regional development dynamics based on the exploitation of their regions' knowledge assets
Regional Intellectual Capital Index (RICI). Relazione tra Capitale Intellettuale e capacità di creazione del valore nei sistemi locali. Il caso delle regioni italiane
No full textRegional Intellectual Capital Index (RICI) –Assessing the links between Intellectual Capital and regional Value Creation
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Relationships Between Intellectual Capital And Value Creation Capability Within Italian Regions
No full textManaging knowledge processes for value creation
No full textNowadays organizations have realized that knowledge, its effective use and the fast acquisition and utilization of new knowledge represent the only source of sustainable competitive advantage. In fact, an effective exploitation and management of knowledge resources are at basis of the development of those capabilities that ground the organization’s capacity to deliver successfully targeted value propositions.
During the last decades, a growing interest in the processes of management of knowledge resources has been experimented. Several theoretical models and approaches aimed to explain how organizational knowledge is created, transferred and crystallized have been produced.
Currently the debate on knowledge management processes is still lively. The dynamics which link knowledge processes to value creation, the valuation of their impact on organizational performance and, the role of some organizational and technological resources as enablers or hampers of a successful knowledge management, emerge as relevant topics to be investigated more in depth.
In this introduction to the special issue we develop some theoretical and managerial reasons explaining the importance of an effective management of knowledge processes to deal with the uncertainty, change, and turbulence of the current socio-economic scenario
A knowledge-based model of organizational innovation capability: evidences from an Italian leading company of home furniture
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