This book brings together high quality concepts closely related to organizational learning, knowledge workers, intellectual capital, virtual teams and will include the methodologies, systems and approaches needed to create and manager knowledge-based organizations of the 21st Century.

Knowledge has become a critical factor for contemporary firms. Its increasing relevance has given rise to a new theory of the firm and which closely ties knowledge creation and application to competitive advantage, enhancing support for this knowledge-based view of innovation. This book provides...

"The main scope of the book is to highlight the importance of intangible resources in business management, evidenced in their measurement and financial valuation, and the need for a strategic analysis that enables them to be identified and then assessed"--Provided by publisher.

"This book provides an advanced, state-of-the-art understanding of the links between the knowledge assets dynamics and the business value creation, focusing on the theory, models, approaches, methodologies, tools and techniques for measuring and managing organizational knowledge assets dynamics...

"This book brings together new perspectives on the knowledge-based view of strategy management as it considers the role of companies, organizations, and nations in the storage and measurement of their knowledge"--Provided by publisher.

"This book explains the interrelationships among different intellectual capital elements and their value creation consequences through support from emerging technologies services, business processes and strategic decisions"--Provided by publisher.

1. Facilitating the use of intellectual capital in a matrix multinational organization / Alan M. Thompson -- 2. An epistemology of intellectual capital and its transition to a practical application / Jan Carrell -- 3. Multinational intellect : the synergistic power of cross cultural knowledge...

"This book presents efficient ways for executives to understand the impact of IT on the intellectual capital of their firms, and searches for a new mandate for management that takes into consideration the pervasive role of IT on competitive boundaries. It provides a synopsis of the history,...

Neural networks design, control and robotics application -- Hybrid evolutionary systems for modelling, control and robotics applications -- Fuzzy logic and bayesian systems -- Machine learning, evolutionary optimisation and information retrieval -- About the authors -- Index

Managing organizations -- Management and control: organizational preparedness -- Understanding IT acquisitions preparedness: organizational perspectives -- Understanding IT acquisitions: associated models -- Conceptualization of IT acquisition life cycle management model -- Development of IT...