To balance the intellectual capital books organizations must recognize unfunded intangible liabilities. Just as knowledge processes, innovation, patents, brands and a host of other intangible assets create value there are many things that create unrecorded and unrecognized intangible...

Security of corporate assets has become a major concern for many companies. The protection of tangible assets costs US companies nearly $30 billion a year. But is the true value of these companies being protected? Intangible assets are integral to the value of a company, yet little is done to...

Organizations of all shapes, sizes, and locations are being faced with changes not experienced since the industrial revolution. The globalization of business, increasing competition for a sophisticated workforce, advances in technology, the customer's demand for products better, faster, and...

Trade liberalization, expanding global markets, and technology proliferation have increased the importance of product variety, speed, and flexibility in building and sustaining competitive advantage. For many organizations, global competition is no longer on the horizon; it has arrived. A...

The dynamic process of globalizing an organization's business activities is marked with uncertainty and high risk due to, in part, the global organizational ignorance of management. In this paper, the authors examine the nature and forms of global organizational ignorance as well as the...

The globalization of business has resulted in the emergence of hyper-competition in many industries. Given the geographic, economic, and cultural dispersion of markets, many organizations have developed network structures to increase their strategic flexibility and to preserve idiosyncratic...

As organizations move into the 21st century, past measures of organizational performance based largely on accounting and financial statements will be insufficient to meaningfully assess value. Short- and long-term performance will be increasingly determined by three resources: ideas,...

The learning organization has been heralded as a proactive structure to address the amount and rate of change facing businesses today. A learning culture provides managers with the information and analyses necessary to modify their organizations to satisfy both internal and external...