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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.
This book is intended to give readers detailed information and
perspectives on the reform of financial management reform practices
in a variety of national settings around the world. The chapters
explore the reform agenda in each nation and factors that
stimulated change. Each chapter addresses the extent of the
influence of ""New Public Management"" concepts and practices on
reform implementation. The nations, whose experience is represented
in this book, are among the most often cited examples of
progressive change to be examined and perhaps emulated by
governments in other nations. In the introductory chapter the
editors address the question whether and to what extent the
financial management reforms detailed in this book reveal real
progress or a progression of questions and dilemmas faced but not
solved over the past several decades.
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.
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.
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.
Modern School Business Administration: A Planning Approach (Peabody
College Education Leadership Series), 1/e Guthrie, Hart, Hack,
Candoli This text covers historical and current trends in
leadership in a very practical way, using cases and a
problem-solving approach as vehicles for examination. The "Modern"
approach of this book explores professional challenges, performance
expectations, and operating conditions encountered by contemporary
American school leaders. It is part of Allyn & Bacon's new
Educational Leadership series from Peabody College at Vanderbilt
University, one of the leading schools of education in the world.
For additional features see the inside front cover. A word from the
authors: The purpose of this textbook is three-fold. The first is
to provide a school business official, or a prospective school
business official, with a thorough understanding of the rapidly
evolving context in which American public education now finds
itself. The book's second purpose is to provide the next generation
of business administrators with prerequisite knowledge of key
school business concepts and practices and the tools that thus
enable them to leverage school management matters to further
advance contemporary education operations. A third purpose for this
book is to serve as a reference work, a rich set of understandings
to which school business officials can routinely turn when they
desire added information on a management topic What your colleagues
are saying: T.J. Meyers, University of Memphis: "This textbook is
an icon" Sidney Brown, Alabama State University "Overall, this is
an excellent book for educational administrative graduate students
in the college of education" "Thistext is thus far one of the best
published" Gloria Poole, Florida A&M University "This is an
excellent book in content. It includes the concepts and skills my
students need to be prepared for fiscal management and an in-depth
understanding of the overarching concepts of school finance and
operations."
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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