Knowledge and Intellectual Capital Management for Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 May 2019) | Viewed by 126180
Special Issue Editors
Interests: intellectual capital management; knowledge management within organizations and in collaborations among organizations; intangible asset evaluation and strategies; processes and tools for knowledge management; open innovation; strategic management of the patent portfolio; geo crowdsourced data
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will comprise a selection of papers addressing approaches and tools for managing knowledge assets and intellectual capital elements with the aim of promoting corporate sustainability and creating value, which is sustainable over time.
Research papers address the multifaceted phenomena of managing the intangible resources of organizations to promote the sustainability and understanding the role of knowledge and intellectual capital in creating sustainable competitive advantages.
Covered topics include, among others: the identification of the competencies that provide sustainable competitive advantages; the acquisition and usage of knowledge to have a sustainable competitive advantage; the link between KM and HRM to support sustainability; the impact of key individuals’ knowledge on sustainable competitive advantage; the impact of key organizational knowledge available in inter-organizational networks on sustainable competitive advantage; the management of intellectual capital in supporting sustainable value creation in organizations; the assessment of the intellectual capital value drivers to increase the sustainable value creation of an organization.
Papers selected for this Special Issue are subject to a rigorous peer review procedure with the aim of rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments, and applications.
Prof. Dr. Michele Grimaldi
Prof. Dr. Livio Cricelli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- knowledge
- intellectual capital
- intangible assets
- intellectual capital management
- knowledge management
- sustainability
- sustainable value
- sustainable competitive advantage
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