The current global crisis (whose origins lie in the functionality of financial markets) has diverse repercussions for intellectual capital creation (i.e. human and structural assets as well as their components). The phenomenon is linked with limited resources being allocated to innovative...

Social media are becoming a vital element of intense Intellectual Capital (IC) growth. Their ultimate shape is being determined by dynamic technical innovation (involving hybrid products and services), merger and acquisition (M&A) activity among product and service innovators, as well as user...

Financial companies worldwide are blamed for having precipitated the gravest global economic meltdown since the Great Depression of the 1930s. While the aftershocks of the last turmoil are still palpable and some observers prophesy that another sharp economic downturn might be in the offing –...

The collapse of communist states in the 1980s and 1990s brought about sweeping changes to most socioeconomic aspects of the former Soviet Bloc countries. It has also in numerous ways - influenced factors relevant to IC sustainability and growth. While the overwhelming majority of reforming...