An Intellectual Capital-Based View of the Firm CFP GMC

Call for Papers: Special Issue of
Knowledge Management Research & Practice (KMRP)
“Towards an Intellectual Capital-Based View of the Firm”
Economic and social activities are undergoing radical changes, which can be labelled as
´knowledge economy and/or society´. In this sense, intellectual capital, or knowledge
assets, as the fourth factor of production, is replacing the other ones – labour, land,
and capital.
Although it has been recognized that economic wealth comes from knowledge assets or intellectual capital and its useful application (Teece, 1998; Dean and Kretschmer,
2007), the emphasis on it is relatively new, and the management of the firm’s
intellectual capital has become one of the key tasks in the executive agenda.
Nevertheless, this work is especially difficult because of the problems involved in the
identification, measurement and strategic assessment of intellectual capital.
After two decades of research on the firm’s intellectual capital (Bontis, 2001; Serenko
et al., 2008), this special issue will analyse the state-of-the-art, its nature and
interrelationships with knowledge management and organizational learning, as well as
future ways of research development, that can be labelled as ‘An Intellectual CapitalBased View of the Firm’ (Reed et al., 2006; Martín-de Castro et al., 2011).
This framework tries to show a new paradigm to understand firm survival,
development, and competitiveness based on its knowledge and intellectual assets, as
talented and committed workers, cultural values, or long term relationships among the
firm and its stakeholders – customers, allies, suppliers, and society in general.
References
BONTIS N (2001) Assessing knowledge assets: a review of the models used to measure
intellectual capital. International Journal of Management Reviews 3(1), 41-60.
DEAN A and KRETSCHMER M (2007) Can Ideas be Capital? Factors of Production in the
Postindustrial Economy: A Review and Critique. Academy of Management
Review 32(2), 573-594.
MARTÍN-DE CASTRO G, DELGADO-VERDE M, NAVAS-LÓPEZ JE and LÓPEZ-SÁEZ P (2011)
Towards an Intellectual Capital-Based View of the Firm. Journal of Business
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REED KK, LUBATKIN M and SRINIVASAN N (2006) Proposing and Testing an Intellectual
Capital-Based View of the Firm. Journal of Management Studies 43(4), 867-893.
SERENKO A, BONTIS N, BOOKER L, SADEDDIN K and HARDIE T (2008) A Scientometric
Analysis of Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital Academic
Literature (1994-2008). Journal of Knowledge Management 14(1), 3-23.
TOPICS include, but are not limited to, the following:
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Integrating Knowledge Management, Organizational Learning, and Intellectual
Capital Views of the Firm
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Advances in the Identification and Measurement of Intellectual Capital
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Integrating Social Capital and Intellectual Capital Perspectives
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The Role of Intellectual Capital in the Firm’s Competitive Advantage
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The Role of Intellectual Capital in Innovation
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A Relational-Based View of Intellectual Capital
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Future Developments in the Intellectual Capital Research Agenda
IMPORTANT DATES
• Abstract submission deadline: 31st March 2012
• Selection of abstracts; invitation to submit a full paper: 30th May 2012
• Full papers due: 31st October 2012
• Notification of acceptance/rejection: 31st March 2013
• Revised papers due: 30th June 2013
• Final review (if necessary): 30th September 2013
• Final revision by authors (if necessary): 30th November 2013
• Publication: expected in Knowledge Management Research & Practice, June 2014,
Volume 12 Issue 2
SUBMISSION
Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has neither
appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals.
Abstract submissions (deadline: 31st March 2012) should include about 1000 words, a
separate list of references and a separate cover page with title, name, address
(including e-mail address), affiliation of author(s), and a list of keywords. Abstracts
must be written in English and must be submitted by email to the Guest Editor at:
[email protected]
Please indicate in the email subject that you are submitting for the "KMRP Special
Issue". Authors of selected papers will then be invited to submit a full paper version
through the KMRP Journal website for double-blind peer review.
GUEST EDITOR
Dr Gregorio Martín-de Castro, Ikujiro Nonaka Centre, CUNEF Business School,
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain [email protected]
Guest Editor Biography
Gregorio Martín-de Castro holds a PhD in Business Administration from Complutense
University of Madrid and a Postgraduate Diploma in Knowledge Management and
Intellectual Capital from INSEAD (France) and IUEE (Spain). He is Associate Professor of
Business Administration and Strategic Management at Complutense University of
Madrid.
He has been a Research Fellow at Real Colegio Complutense -Harvard University
(U.S.A.) in 2004-2005, at the Manchester Institute for Innovation Research,
Manchester Business School -The University of Manchester (U.K.) in 2009, and Visiting
Scholar at the Department of Management and Organization, Marshall School of
Business – The University of Southern California (U.S.A.) in 2011.
He is principal investigator and member of the Executive Board of the Ikujiro Nonaka
Centre for Knowledge and Innovation, at CUNEF Business School, Complutense
University of Madrid (Spain).
He has published more than 40 research books, book chapters, and articles in
academic journals on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management, Resource-Based
Theory, and Strategic Management.
More information is available on the web-site:
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/kmrp/index.html
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