The objective of the study is to empirically verify impacts of intellectual capital to the anticipated future sales of small and medium-sized companies within biotechnology industry. Intellectual capital is divided into the following three categories: human, structural, and relational capital....

The well-being perspective of the employees’ is only seldom connected to the discussion on intellectual capital. This paper analyses expert interview data on intellectual capital with maintenance of work ability (MWA) as frame of reference. The framework includes employees’ health but also...

Intellectual Capital, Intangible Assets and Knowledge Creation are all concepts that are strongly linked to the phenomenon of Knowledge Management. Yet they have only been parallel to each other. This controversy between different approaches has also resulted in vague definitions of Knowledge...

This study shows that definitions of intellectual capital (IC) provided by the IC experts interviewed have very much in common with the maintenance of work ability (MWA) concept that is the central framework for Finnish occupational health and safety activities. Both concepts include competence,...

Companies face an expanding set of choices about where to locate their innovation activity, both within their home countries and abroad. This location choice also requires firms to make a simultaneous choice about the organizational structure of innovation activity: almost by definition,...

Vor dem Hintergrund turbulenter und dynamischer Märkte werden für Unternehmen neue strategische Konzepte, die flexible Reaktionen auf Markt- und Kundenanforderungen ermöglichen und die Innovationsfähigkeit von Unternehmen steigern, immer wichtiger.(...)

Der Begriff Wissen ist in kurzer Zeit in das Zentrum der betriebswirtschaftlichen Diskussion geraten. Nie zuvor hat man in der Betriebswirtschaftslehre so intensiv über Wissen diskutiert, über die in Organisationen verwendeten Wissensarten, die Entstehung von organisationsspezifischem Wissen,...

... In this article, we discuss these conceptual flaws in the current knowledge debate and develop three requirements designed as a basis for qualifying knowledge from non-knowledge.

This paper investigates the management of knowledge within networks of highly skilled contractors (NHSC). These networks provide flexible access to new knowledge but also show aspects of economic dependencies on existing contractors’ knowledge.