Von den Entwicklungen, die das Wirtschaftsleben in den letzten Jahren wegweisend geprägt haben, erreichen wenige eine solche Bedeutung wie das Phänomen der „Netzwerke“. Die Ubiquität von Netzwerken auf branchen-, unternehmensbezogenen, wie individuellen Ebenen bedingt zunehmend eine...

The specificity and the existing opportunities at the level of a community give it the feeling of local identity and at the same time, it can be a “lever” for the real involvement of the whole community in development. From such a direction, the purpose of this article is to analyze the...

Future of development of national economy and business sector of any country in the modern world is connected with irreversible processes of globalization. Internationalization, transnationalization and integration processes of economic life, liberalization of foreign trade policy have become...

This research has investigated factors that affect the successful commercialization of intellectual capital. The concept of social constructs of meaning for the interview participants provides the fundamental perspective of this research. The research was undertaken on the basis of a...

Purpose € The purpose of this paper is to explore the degree to which intangible resources explain performance variation among firms.

How do private returns to inventive activity change when IPR regimes are substantially strengthened? Our paper investigates this question by looking at the impact of patent reforms in India on India-based pharmaceutical companies. In a fundamental policy shift, India agreed to introduce product...

Agricultural biotechnology firms are high technology companies. Firms in general, and high technology firms in particular, are a set of both assets in place and growth opportunities. This has important implications for managerial decision-making. Knowledge capital motivates exploitation of...

We examine whether firms that capitalize a higher proportion of their underlying intangible assets have higher analyst following, lower dispersion of analysts’ earnings forecasts and more accurate earnings forecasts relative to firms that capitalize a lower proportion. Under Australian...

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...

This thesis attempts to analyze a part of the big and complex process of how intellectualproperty ownership and technological innovation influence the performance of firms andtheir revenues. Here I analyze a firm's stock market performance as a function of thequantity and quality of intellectual...