Business & economics / Knowledge Capital

Smart Working: Creating the Next Wave

by Anne Marie McEwan

It is more possible than ever to influence and shape our working environments, our experience of work and each other. Business leaders who set the conditions and create engaging, meaningful work through organisational...

The Knowledge Business: The Commodification of Urban and Housing Research

by Allen & Imrie

This book provides a critique of the knowledge business, and describes and evaluates its different manifestations in, and impacts on, the university sector. Its focus is the social sciences and, in particular,...

Knowledge-Intensive Business Services: Geography and Innovation

by David Doloreux & Mark Freel

This timely volume brings together current research on knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) and innovation from a geographic or territorial perspective. Researchers from across Europe and North America...

Uniting Diverse Organizations: Managing Goal-Oriented Advocacy Networks

by Angel Saz-Carranza

Networks are made up of organizations. Often a central unit, or "Network Administrative Organization" (NAO), manages an entire network of organizations that collaborate to achieve an overall network-level goal....

Knowledge Sharing in Professions: Roles and Identity in Expert Communities

by Alexander Styhre

Knowledge Sharing in Professions looks at professionalism as a form of systematic and institutionalized knowledge sharing. It analyses professionalism through the everyday practices in professional communities...

Perspectives on Intellectual Capital

by Bernard Marr

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,...

Multinational Enterprises and Innovation

by Martin Heidenreich, Christoph Barmeyer & Knut Koschatzky

The crucial actors of a global knowledge-based economy are multinational enterprises (MNEs). MNEs depend on the embeddedness in an institutional framework; their competitive advantage depends on the cross-border...

Knowledge Economy and the City

by Ali Madanipour

This book explores the relationship between space and economy, the spatial expressions of the knowledge economy. The capitalist industrial economy produced its own space, which differed radically from its predecessor...

The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action

by Jeffrey Pfeffer & Robert Sutton

Why are there so many gaps between what firms know they should do and what they actually do? Why do so many companies fail to implement the experience and insight they've worked so hard to acquire? The Knowing-Doing...

The Complete Guide to Knowledge Management: A Strategic Plan to Leverage Your Company's Intellectual Capital

by Edna Pasher & Tuvya Ronen

A straightforward guide to leveraging your company's intellectual capital by creating a knowledge management culture

The Complete Guide to Knowledge Management offers managers the tools they need to create an...

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA): A Planning and Implementation Guide for Business and Technology

by Eric A. Marks & Michael Bell

Praise for Service-Oriented Architecture

"This book provides a superb overview of the SOA topic. Marks and Bell provide practical guidance across the entire SOA life cycle-from business imperatives and motivations...