This book provides an authoritative, inter-disciplinary, and up-to-date survey of relevant concepts, research areas, and applications of intellectual capital. Until now, the literature had lacked a comprehensive analysis of intellectual capital (IC) in regard to sustainability, block chain, and other related technologies and virtual environments. This book shows the importance of intellectual capital for contemporary organizations: how it contributes to theories of the firm, how it affects organizational performance, how is it linked with the organizational ambidexterity, how it connects to the technological developments like block chain and digital technologies, and what would be its association with sustainability. Central to our thesis is the systemic nature of intellectual capital in organizations: how intellectual capital interacts with and complements other organizational resources and developments. This book also shows as to how applying the notion of intellectual capital toorganizations requires us to consider how intangible forms of capital differ from more traditional forms, implying the need for a theory of firm that accommodates a concept of dynamic, heterogeneous intellectual capital. Although a lot has been written on IC, this book proves to be the first with scholastic and action-oriented perspective on as to how a firm can manage its IC to create value. This book also demonstrates as to how the subjective aspects of IC can be measured and what can be their strategic implications. A discussion on IC disclosure also appears in the latter part of the book. In doing so, this book reveals as to how the value creation of today’s businesses is driven by the IC. This book also introduces the readers to the new application of IC and its association with the contemporary disruptive technologies.
This is a book for IC researchers and academicians who want to understand the diverse aspects of IC, for business managers who want to be at the cutting edge, for those early in their careers who seek a challenging new path, and for the top-level managers of the world who have their eye on the future.
Dr. Muhammad Shahbaz is Professor of Energy at School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, China. He is also Visiting Research Fellow at Cambridge University, UK. With citations of 32,036, he is ranked among the top 10 energy researcher of the world. He has also been conferred the award of “Scientist of the Year” by Turkish government. Dr. Shahbaz’s areas of interest are economics of human capital, energy economics, environmental economics and sustainability. He is author of more than 600 research papers and 10 books on the various topics entrenching from human capital to energy economics. Dr. Shahbaz regularly appears in the national and international media as economic expert.
Dr. Muhammad Shujaat Mubarik is currently Professor and Associate Dean at College of Business Management, Institute of Business Management (IoBM), Karachi, Pakistan. His research areas are intellectual capital management, industry 4.0 supply chain management, resilience, and sustainability. He has published a number of high-quality research papers in journals of high repute. He has developed human capital index, which is used by the firms to gauge their levels of human capital. Dr. Mubarik is also a consultant and trainer of various prominent international firms from fertilizer, textile, and steel. He also regularly conducts workshops on advanced DEMATEL, AHP, ANP, and supply chain management.
Mr. Tarique Mahmood is Senior Lecturer at Muhammad Ali Jinnah University, Karachi, Pakistan. His area of interest is ambidextrous intellectual capital and firm performance strategies. He has published his work in Journal of Intellectual capital,
Technological Forecasting and Social Change and Human Systems Management, etc. He is also a certified master trainer of higher education commission (HEC), Pakistan.
