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Intellectual Capital and Company’s Performance Improvements
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Purpose – The purpose of this research is to show how the variety of ways of performing through knowledge and intangible resources exploitation raises the question of how these kind of resources can be coherently and successfully declined into companies' processes and operations, what are the “right”, or appropriate approaches to manage intellectual capital (IC), and how these approaches can disentangle the mechanisms by which those resources contribute to improve companies' organizational performance. In this introduction to the special issue some conceptual interpretations are developed to investigate IC-based approaches, methods, tools and factors of companies' performance improvement
Strategic performance management and local development: the case of the Murgia Italian Industrial Districts
No full textTechnology Districts (TDs) as driver of a Knowledge-Based Development (KBD); Defining performance indicators assessing TDs’ effectiveness and impact
No full textTowards a General Performance and Impact Measurement System of the Technological Districts (TDs): Implications for the Decision-makers
No full textThe Relationships Between Knowledge Assets And Regional Development: A Multivariate Analysis
No full textEditorial Special Issue on “Sustainable Innovation in Services and Manufacturing Industries”
No full textThis special issue of International Journal of Strategic Change Management is devoted to analyse and discuss different perspectives of sustainable innovation and change management in services and manufacturing industries
Knowledge-based dynamics of regional development: the IC Innovation Capacity Model
No full textDo Intellectual Capital (IC) dimensions matter for regional innovation? If regional development can be explained in terms of knowledge-based dynamics, what are the key IC pillars driving wealth generation? In this paper, adopting the model of the Knoware Tree, the IC dimensions of regional development are discussed. Then, the IC Innovation Capacity Model is introduced in order to explain why IC should be addressed from policy and strategy point of view as a key driver of innovation processes of local system
Knowledge-based capital in building regional innovation capacity
No full textPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role and the relevance of knowledge-based capital as a strategic resource and a source of regional innovation capacity. The paper identifies human, relational, structural and social capital as the four main knowledge-based categories building the knowledge-based capital of a region. The role of each knowledge-based category in determining regional innovation capacity is analyzed. Specifically, the authors discuss the relationships among the knowledge-based categories and a regional innovation capacity.
Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on an in-depth literature review of the knowledge management and regional innovation research stream. The fundamental underlying research questions that have driven the research are: “What are the knowledge-based capital categories affecting a region's innovation capacity?” and “How do knowledge-based categories influence regional innovation capacity?”. The paper is conceptual in its nature and aims to delineate a theory-based framework to drive further empirical research.
Findings – The paper first clarifies the concept of knowledge-based capital and of regional innovation capacity. These are two key concepts for understanding the role and relevance of the knowledge assets bundles in the creation, development and management of innovation capabilities at regional level. Then the paper explores how knowledge-based components affect the innovation capacity of a region. This is an issue of great relevance for both theory and practice. From the theory point of view it allows the identification of the main factors characterising the links between knowledge assets and innovation capacity, while from a practical point of view it can provide implications for policy makers for the definition of policies oriented towards the development of regional knowledge asset domains to develop regional innovation capacity.
Originality/value – The paper provides an answer to the need to develop a holistic view of the links between a region's knowledge-based capital and its innovation capacity. Indeed, most of the studies in the literature have analysed the links between isolated knowledge asset categories and innovation capabilities. The paper, on the basis of a clear definition of knowledge-based capital and innovation capacity, analyses why regional knowledge foundations make differences in the innovation capacity of regions
Enhancing business value creation capacity through relationships with culture and creative organizations
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