Building on the complexities of organizational knowledge creation the paper explores the alignment of knowledge management practices with the epistemological beliefs of individuals or groups in organizations. A pan‐European research project investigated individual’s philosophy about truth,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an assessment framework for evaluating the success of knowledge management (KM) initiatives in a government setting. Design/methodology/approach – The approach used was to first conduct a brief review of the leading thinking on KM and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze how the Intellectual Capital perspective can be altered in order to include ethically questionable practices of knowledge acquisition. Design/methodology/approach – The paper explores the relationship between formal and illicit forms of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a new and systematic approach towards strategic foresight by combining traditional external scenarios (market‐based approach) with internal scenarios (resource‐based approach) into a future scorecard, which can be used to describe...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a three‐dimensional framework to facilitate future definitions of intellectual capital (IC). The concept of IC is often ill‐defined and there is a multitude of different definitions for the construct of IC. The lack of a common platform for...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to link empirically the value of intellectual capital and intellectual property to firm performance. Design/methodology/approach – Survey data from managers in the (German) pharmaceutical industry is used to conduct a regression analysis focusing on the...

Purpose – The paper seeks to test empirically a variety of hypotheses related to human capital and organizational performance within software companies in Egypt. Design/methodology/approach – A valid research instrument was utilized to conduct a survey of 38 software companies who are...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue that the successful management of creative employees in organisations that rely extensively on the development of intellectual capital must incorporate new thinking to manage the inevitable paradoxical situations that arise in such contexts....

Purpose – This paper aims to study the relationship between intellectual capital disclosures (ICDs) and the relative importance of intangible assets as company value drivers. Design/methodology/approach – Annual reports of Swedish, British and Danish firms are analysed to measure the extent...

Purpose – This paper aims to look at the three areas of corporate governance, intellectual capital and strategic business valuation from the perspective of a long‐term value investor. Design/methodology/approach – The paper begins by briefly laying out the investment tenets of a...