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This essential Research Handbook examines the state-of-the-art
methodologies being applied to the expanding field of intellectual
capital (IC) research. It offers an overview of the contemporary
issues and methods in the field, providing insight and inspiration
for emerging and established academics in their own research.
Featuring contributions from a variety of renowned international
scholars in the area, the Research Handbook is divided into four
parts, outlining the four main methodological routes taken by
current IC research. First, chapters discuss content analysis and
offer future perspectives for advancing such studies. The book then
examines fruitful avenues for IC visualization studies, before
critiquing and furthering IC value added and IC efficiency
measurement studies. Finally, it analyses and offers novel
approaches for studying and intervening with IC and value creation.
This Research Handbook will be a vital resource for scholars and
students of business and management entering the field of
intellectual capital, whether they are established academics with a
renewed interest in the subject or just starting their research
careers.
This essential Research Handbook examines the state-of-the-art
methodologies being applied to the expanding field of intellectual
capital (IC) research. It offers an overview of the contemporary
issues and methods in the field, providing insight and inspiration
for emerging and established academics in their own research.
Featuring contributions from a variety of renowned international
scholars in the area, the Research Handbook is divided into four
parts, outlining the four main methodological routes taken by
current IC research. First, chapters discuss content analysis and
offer future perspectives for advancing such studies. The book then
examines fruitful avenues for IC visualization studies, before
critiquing and furthering IC value added and IC efficiency
measurement studies. Finally, it analyses and offers novel
approaches for studying and intervening with IC and value creation.
This Research Handbook will be a vital resource for scholars and
students of business and management entering the field of
intellectual capital, whether they are established academics with a
renewed interest in the subject or just starting their research
careers.
Among the significant repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic is
escalating public questioning of the desirability and
sustainability of the market economy and the societal role of
business. These concerns are linked to merger and acquisition
(M&A) activity, with significant disruptive consequences for
stakeholder relationships and their management. This book explores
these changes, moving away from the traditional focus on the
financial and strategic aspects of M&A and its rational,
technocratic approach. Viewing M&A activity as economic,
political, and social (EPS) processes, Segal provides a dialectic
understanding of stakeholder relationships around M&A activity
and challenges the view that M&A activity is static, linear,
and predictable. He develops a conceptual framework to enable
practitioners, researchers and policymakers to identify, understand
and address the stakeholder and management implications of M&A
activity. This is applied to four case studies that make explicit
how complex stakeholder relationships play out around M&A and
how these power dynamics were managed with different balances.
Useful for academics, researchers, managers, advisors, investors,
analysts, and other stakeholders, this book highlights the need to
understand the EPS implications and processes involved around
M&A.
The Routledge Companion to Intellectual Capital offers a
comprehensive overview of an important field that has seen a
diverse range of developments in research in recent years. Edited
by leading scholars and with contributions from top academics and
practitioners from around the world, this volume will provide not
just theoretical analysis but also evaluate practice through case
studies. Combining theoretical and practice perspectives, this
comprehensive Companion addresses the role of IC inside and between
organisations and institutions and how these contribute to the IC
of nations, regions and clusters. Drawing on an extensive range of
leading contributors,The Routledge Companion to Intellectual
Capital will be of interest to scholars who want to understand IC
from a variety of perspectives, as well as students who are seeking
an authoritative and comprehensive source on IC and knowledge
management.
This volume aims to shed light on how public service value is
identified, managed, measured and reported. The concept of public
value has been increasingly associated with the process of
modernisation and in recent years the debate has shifted away from
'what' to 'how' public value is conceptualised and practiced. How
the public sector can meet the communities' expectations is
particularly relevant in light of the Global Financial Crisis. At
present, many governments are involved in reform aimed at improving
the effectiveness, efficiency and economy of operations, and
improving the quality of public services. Examining the
effectiveness of these reforms and understanding the gap between
the expectations of society and the resources available for public
services is an important but under-explored topic. The chapters are
the result of a series of conferences and workshops on public value
held in 2012 and 2013. There are 20 papers, covering a range of
topics, including theoretical reflections, practical case studies
and empirical observations aimed at understanding the concept of
public value.
The Routledge Companion to Intellectual Capital offers a
comprehensive overview of an important field that has seen a
diverse range of developments in research in recent years. Edited
by leading scholars and with contributions from top academics and
practitioners from around the world, this volume will provide not
just theoretical analysis but also evaluate practice through case
studies. Combining theoretical and practice perspectives, this
comprehensive Companion addresses the role of IC inside and between
organisations and institutions and how these contribute to the IC
of nations, regions and clusters. Drawing on an extensive range of
leading contributors,The Routledge Companion to Intellectual
Capital will be of interest to scholars who want to understand IC
from a variety of perspectives, as well as students who are seeking
an authoritative and comprehensive source on IC and knowledge
management.
Governments around the world are criticized as inefficient,
ineffective, too large, too costly, overly bureaucratic,
overburdened by unnecessary rules, unresponsive to public needs,
secretive, undemocratic, invasive into rights of citizens,
self-serving, and failing in provision of the quantity and quality
of services desired by the taxpaying public. Fiscal stress has
plagued many governments, increasing the cry for less costly or
just less government. Critics have exerted sustained pressure on
politicians and public managers for transformational reform.
Recommendations for change have included application of market and
economic logic and private sector management methods to government.
Managerial reform has been promoted on grounds that the public
sector is organized and functions on many of the wrong principles
and needs reinvention and renewal. Government reforms in response
to reformist pressures have included restraint of spending and tax
cuts, sales of public assets, privatization and contracting-out of
services, increased performance measurement and auditing, output
and outcomes based budgeting, and new accounting and reporting
methods. Reform has been accompanied by promises of smaller, less
interventionist and more decentralized government, improved
efficiency and effectiveness, greater responsiveness and
accountability to citizens, increased choice between public and
private providers of services, a more 'entrepreneurial' public
sector capable of cooperating with business. While it is apparent
why politicians and elected officials often support new managerial
methods, observers wonder whether the promises of reform can be
delivered upon to provide benefits depicted so attractively.
Dialogue on this question is active among public management
scholars, practitioners, politicians, citizen groups and the media.
Substantial elements of this dialogue are represented in this book.
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