Intellectual Capital scores highly on the agenda of practicing
managers and academics as they all try to disentangle such problems
as how to identify and measure intellectual capital and how to
value and report intangibles and invisible assets. Few people doubt
the importance of measuring, managing, and reporting intangibles
such as Intellectual Capital and most practitioners and scholars
are in agreement that intangible assets such as knowledge, brand,
relationships, organizational culture, and intellectual property
are the primary drivers of competitiveness in todays global
economy. Governments, research organizations, and private
corporations are sponsoring projects to develop the area of
intangible assets. Different tools are being developed to handle
intangibles. such as strategic approaches like the business
scorecard or management frameworks, or financial perspectives
dealing with real options or value based approaches. A significant
problem people face when they first delve into this area is that
the definitions are not clear and neither are the boundaries. This
is, to a large extent, due to the multidimensional nature of the
topic. research. The result is little cross-fertilization of ideas
and concepts. Thus, although the concept of intellectual capital is
truly multidisciplinary, there is little agreement and significant
confusion concerning its nature, available tools, their usage, as
well as the extent to which such tools are applied in
organizations. Perspectives on Intellectual Capital is aimed at
addressing exactly these challenges. First, it will bridge the
disciplinary gaps and facilitate knowledge transfer across
disciplines. Secondly, it will provide an introduction to
intangibles for those new to the field. The book offers functional
perspectives and therefore a truly comprehensive understanding of
what intellectual capital is, what it stands for, what is state of
the art in each discipline and where it will go in the future. The
book features views on intellectual capital from an accounting,
strategy, marketing, human resource management, operations
management, information systems, and economics position.
perspectives of public policy, knowledge management and
epistemology. The final part of the book will extract the key
trends and try to create bridges across disciplines in order to
open up trajectories for future developments, learning, and
practice. The book is structured methodologically, designed to
provide a holistic understanding of the field. The structure of
each chapter will start with an explanation and a review of the
background and development of intellectual capital in relation to
the discipline being discussed. It will cover a historic review in
order to explore the triggers and reasons why intangibles have
become important and above all it will provide definitions and
clarify the language used to describe intellectual capital. This
part will address the key believes and theoretical foundations on
which views on intellectual capital are based. Each chapter will
then outline the evolution of theoretical concepts and will give
the reader an insight into which theoretical tools and techniques
have been developed to manage, measure, or report intangibles.
second part is then contrasted with the extent to which these tools
and techniques are used by in practice. It will include a selection
of best practice examples of how real organizations apply these
tools and techniques. This will uncover possible gaps between
theory and practice. We expect different gaps for different
disciplines, in some theory will lead practice whereas in others
theory might lag practice. In this way the reader will see
potential for both transfer of theoretical concepts into practice
as well as for grounding practical concepts into theory. The final
part of each chapter will look to the future. It will try to
identify how mature the theme is in each of the disciplinary views
and discuss how intellectual capital might develop. In this, the
authors seek to identify the major challenges that will need to be
addressed in the future and give an outline of possible barriers
and enablers.
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