Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to aim to quantitatively evaluate the importance of ICTs for sustainable development. A hypothesis about the criticality of ICTs to sustainable development has been tested. The consequences of other ICT elements on knowledge management also have been...

Purpose – Decisions are integral to daily business practice. Sound and agile decision making is argued to be a core strategic capability. Knowledge helps avoid the consequences of ill‐informed decisions. Facts and expertise provide content; know‐how about the pitfalls and requirements of...

Purpose – This paper's aim is to highlight the relationship between individual tacit knowledge and bounded awareness in managerial decision making. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews pertinent literature on bounded awareness, individual tacit knowledge and decision making as...

This paper aims to improve understanding of the process through which knowledge acquisition, technical tools and organisation actors can contribute to an organisation development in developing knowledge as a systemic competitive weapon. It examines the relationships between the technology and...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide a systematic framework for organizations to analyze their knowledge reuse processes, and balance codification and personalization within their knowledge strategy according to cost/benefit analysis. Design/methodology/approach – This paper divides...

Purpose – This paper aims to argue that the methodologies adopted by the conventional management accounting in selecting between or among two or more alternative courses of action, both in the long-term and the short-term decision making endeavours conflict with the overall objective ( ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the harmful effects of framing and suggests ways to improve decisions. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses a number of real life examples of catastrophic failures of decision making by obviously intelligent and experienced people and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the use of a post hoc predictive segmentation procedure to find out the variables that are the most important predictors of investor's preference for specific financial investment products. Design/methodology/approach – The study considers...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse how a patent is an intangible asset and how it creates value. Design/methodology/approach – Through analysis of a set of cases, the paper analyses how a patent becomes related to a series of other elements. This approach investigates the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look at how the papers of the Special Issue provide a perspective for the current state of the field of intellectual capital and a departure point for further research explorations. Design/methodology/approach – The paper discusses the other papers...