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Challenges and strategies for improving the quality of information in a university setting: a case study
Dhillon, Jaswinder - 2001
Knowledge, information and communication are crucial for organizational effectiveness and key to the ability of the organization to respond to change. This article reports on the findings of a research and developmental project in a modular multi-campus university focusing on improving the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009458966
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Intellectual capital accounting in the UK: a field study perspective
Roslender, Robin; Fincham, Robin - 2004
Accounting for intellectual capital is increasingly recognised to be one of the most fascinating and potentially far-reaching challenges facing the accountancy profession. A growing literature, encompassing theoretical, empirical and practical elements, is currently emerging as researchers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463544
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Developmental university systems: empirical, analytical and normative perspectives
Brundenius, Claes; Lundvall, Bengt-Åke; Sutz, Judith - 2008
It has become almost trivial to assert that in the knowledge society universities are important institutions. This … challenges that such countries and their universities are facing. Both in the developed and the developing countries the main … emphasis is now on how universities may serve industry through direct flows of information from on-going research. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475748
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Examining the Influence of Selectivity on Alumni Giving at Public Universities: A Dynamic Panel Modeling Approach
Simone, Sean Anthony - 2009
This study examines the influence of institutional selectivity on alumni giving among public research universities … with lagged or "dynamic" variables. Using panel data from 147 public universities over 11 years, the analysis for this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450702
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Intellectual capital : current issues and policy implications
Brennan, Niamh; Connell, Brenda - 2000
Substantial differences between company book values and market values indicate the presence of assets not recognised and measured in company balance sheets. Intellectual capital assets account for a substantial proportion of this discrepancy. At present, companies are not required to report on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475655
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Corporate Social Capital and Firm Performance in the Global Information Technology Services Sector
Lock Lee, Laurence - 2008
The confluence of a number of marketplace phenomena has provided the impetus for the selection and conduct of this research. The first is the so called value relevance of intangibles in determining share market performance of publicly listed companies. The growing gap between market and book...
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APPROACHES CONCERNING ACCOUNTING OF INTANGIBLE ASSETS
MOROSAN, Gheorghe; GROSU, Veronica; ZUBAȘ, Ioana Mădălina - 2016
Given the importance of intangible assets in the company the paper aims to establish criteria for recognizing and measuring these assets through which the company can not only reflect the true value and its carrying amount. The main objective is to formulate a logical definition of intangible...
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Knowledge management in a global setting: a critique of knowledge transfer and the role of knowledge workers
Konstantinou, Efrosyni - 2008
As a form of expert labour and organizational resource, knowledge workers are important in organizational life as producers and consumers of knowledge. The role of knowledge workers and the ways in which they transfer their knowledge become important as they possess the symbolic and analytic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465828
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Knowledge and Innovation Focus: A Classification of US and Canadian Firms
Joyce, Teresa; Stivers, Bonnie P. - 1999
This article examines business practices focused on knowledge and innovation and the relationship of these business practices with other key organisational variables in Canadian and US firms. The article is based on a 1996 study of 103 Fortune 500 and 151 Post 300 firms. The study was sponsored...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009459105
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An exploration of knowledge management and intellectual capital in a nonprofit organisation context
Quink, Ute - 2008
In recent years, practitioners and researchers alike have turned their attention to knowledge management (KM) in order to increase organisational performance (OP). As a result, many different approaches and strategies have been investigated and suggested for how knowledge should be managed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438304