Managing Knowledge Assets and Business Value Creation in Organizations: Measures and Dynamics (Premier Reference Source)

✍ Scribed by Giovanni Schiuma

• Publisher: IGI Global
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 350
• Series: Premier Reference Source
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In todays complex and hypercompetitive business landscape, knowledge assets are both strategic organizational resources and sources of organizational value creation and business performance improvements. Managing Knowledge Assets and Business Value Creation in Organizations: Measures and Dynamics provides an advanced, state-of-the-art understanding of the links between the knowledge assets dynamics and the business value creation. This publication focuses on the theory, models, approaches, methodologies, tools and techniques for measuring and managing organizational knowledge assets dynamics supporting and driving business performance improvements. This comprehensive work is a substantial contribution to the field in terms of theory, methodology and applications to replicate, support and challenge existing studies and offer new applications of existing theory and approaches.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
......Page 2
List of Reviewers......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 5
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgment......Page 24
The Problems and Challenges of Researching Intellectual Capital......Page 26
Managing and Measuring Knowledge Assets Dynamics for Business Value Creation in Organisations......Page 38
Knowledge Assets and Value Creation Dynamics......Page 55
Ethos as Enablers of Organisational Knowledge Creation......Page 75
A Knowledge Assets Mapping Methodology to View Organizational Knowledge-Based Value Creation Dynamics......Page 92
Why Measure Knowledge Assets?......Page 112
Intangible Assets......Page 135
Measuring Dynamic Knowledge Flows......Page 150
ORCI......Page 171
Measuring Knowledge Assets within Organizations......Page 181
How Knowledge Assets are Transformed into Value......Page 198
Knowledge Asset Dynamics and Firm Performance......Page 213
IC Management......Page 230
Developing an effective Knowledge Management System......Page 247
Managing Intellectual Assets in Small Knowledge-Intensive Organizations......Page 266
Knowledge Assets and Value Creation......Page 289
Compilation of References......Page 303
About the Contributors......Page 340
Index......Page 344