The fourth in the readers' series Resources for the Knowledge-Based Economy, The Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital analyzes the link between the strategic and operational roles of intellectual capital in the organization. The Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital is the perfect resource for the growing number of companies pursuing a strategic approach to managing their intellectual capital and harnessing and leveraging their knowledge, experience, and expertise more systematically to attain a competitive advantage.

Increasingly, the challenge of management is to create and supply knowledge in order to sustain organizational performance. However, few books on management strategy have been written using this concept as a foundation. This unique volume adopts a knowledge-based approach that will complement and perhaps supplant other perspectives. Editors Nick Bontis and Chun Wei Choo look at the literature through the lens of strategic management and from the vantage point of organizational science. The thirty readings have been carefully selected and commissioned to provide the best literature available--from articles newly written for this book and from existing publications.

With the proper management, knowledge-based resources (human capital, relational capital, structural capital) aim to contribute to the creation of a competitive advantage not only for companies and institutions, but also for nations and economic regions. Intellectual Capital Strategy Management for Knowledge-Based Organizations brings together new perspectives on the knowledge-based view of strategy management as it considers the role of companies, organizations, and nations in the storage and measurement of their knowledge. This book is useful for industry leaders, practitioners, academics and scholars interested in emerging aspects of knowledge management and industry services.

Perspectives on Intellectual Capital bridges the disciplinary gaps and facilitates knowledge transfer across disciplines, featuring views on intellectual capital from the fields of accounting, strategy, marketing, human resource management, operations management, information systems, and economics. It also offers interdisciplinary views on intellectual capital from the perspectives of public policy, knowledge management and epistemology. By analyzing the various perspectives, Editor Bernard Marr is able to present a truly comprehensive understanding of what intellectual capital is, including the "state of the art" thinking about it in each discipline, the common key trends, and the trajectories for future developments, learning, and practice. Contributors include many of the leading thinkers in their respective disciplines: Mie Augier and David Teece on the Economic Perspective, Bernard Marr and Goran Roos on the Strategy Perspective, Baruch Lev, Leandro Canibano, and Bernard Marr on the Accounting Perspective; Sudi Sudarsanam, Ghulam Sorwar, and Bernard Marr on the Finance Perspective; Jan Mourtisen, Per Nikolaj Bukh, and Bernard Marr on the Reporting Perspective; Lisa Fernstrom on the Marketing Perspective; Ulf Johanson on the HR Perspective; L. Martin Clotier and E. Richard Gold on the Legal Perspective; Partick H. Sullivan on the Intellectual Property Perspective; Giovanni Schiuma, Antonio Lerro, and Daniela Carlucci on the Interfirm Perspective; Ahmed Bounfour and Leif Edvinsson on the Public Policy Perspective; J-C Spender and Bernard Marr on a Knowledge-Based Perspective; Goran Roos on An Epistemology Perpsective. Foreword by Robert Grant. Bernard Marr is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Business Performance at Cranfield School of Management, UK, and Visiting Professor, University of Basilicata, Italy.

These proceedings represent the work of presenters at the 3rd European Conference on Intellectual Capital (ECIC 2011). The Conference is hosted this year by the University of Nicosia in Cyprus. The Conference Chair is Geoff Turner from the University of Nicosia and the Programme Chair is Clemente Minonne from the School of Management and Law, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland. The opening keynote address is given by John Girard from Minot State University in the USA. John will address the question Social Knowledge: Are we ready for the future? The second day of the conference will be opened by Ludo Pyis from AREOPA in Belgium who will consider Intellectual Capital Accounting: how to measure the unmeasurable. We also look forward to a Knowledge Cafe on the topic of What intellectual capital ideas and developments do you expect to live and see? facilitated by Helen Paige from The Paige Group, South Australia.

The management of intangible resources like competence, relationships, brands, processes and systems is of vital importance to creating and maintaining competitive advantage in Business. With technology evolving at the current rate, it can be nearly impossible to keep up and maintain a competitive edge. Intellectual Capital as a Management Tool: Essentials for Leaders and Managers covers a review of the development of the intellectual capital field and discusses the key domains of study where the intellectual capital view of the firm has made major contributions. The book introduces an updated version of the intellectual capital navigator as an operational tool to help managers maximise value generation from an organisations portfolio of diverse resources. This tool is the only tool that enables organisations to use the resource based view of the firm in an operational way. The book also discusses future developments of the intellectual capital navigator increasing its precision around the financial aspects of the organisation. The book has broad application across all types of organisations and in all operating environments, and is vital reading for managers who want to understand and exploit the importance of managing intellectual capital.

These proceedings represent the work of presenters at the 7th European Conference on Intellectual Capital (ECIC 2015). This year the conference is being hosted by The Technical University of Cartagena, Spain on the 9-10 April 2015. The Conference Co-Chairs are Dr. Eva Martinez Caro, Dr. María Eugenia Sánchez & Dr. David Cegarra Leiva from the Technical University of Cartagena and the Programme Chair is Dr. Juan Gabriel Cegarra Navarro also from the Technical University of Cartagena. The opening keynote address is by Constantin Bratianu, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania on the topic of “A Dynamic Perspective on Intellectual Capital” Dr Scott Erickson from the School of Business, Ithaca College and Dr Helen Rothberg, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, USA will address the topic “Does intellectual capital have a role in making the big strategic decisions? On the second day of the conference Dr José Maria Viedma Marti from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain will talk about xxxx. The primary aim of this conference is to contribute to the further advancement of intellectual capital theory and practice. The conference provides a platform for presenting findings and ideas for the intellectual capital community and associated fields. The range of people, issues and the mix of approaches followed will ensure an interesting two days. 115 abstracts were received for this conference. After the double blind, peer review process there are 43 academic papers, 13 PhD papers and 2 Masters Research Papers and 1 Work In Progress Paper published in these Conference Proceedings. These papers represent truly global research from some xx different countries, including the Albania, Australia, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Espana, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Malaysia Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain Thailand, United Arab Emirates, UK and the USA