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Informationen zum Autor Alan Burton-Jones heads an international management consultancy practice headquartered in Australia and is a senior visiting lecturer at New South Wales, Griffith and Bond Universities. His academic research focuses on the role of knowledge in organizations and the links between strategy, intellectual resources and organizational effectiveness. He is the author of Knowledge Capitalism: Business, Work and Learning in the New Economy (Oxford University Press, (1999) (Nikkei 2002) and his writings have also been published in a number of leading international journals. He contributed to the Australian government report on the knowledge-based economy in APEC countries (DISR 2000) ,the first national Knowledge Management Framework published by Standards Australia and the establishment of the Asia-Pacific Learning and Knowledge Management Council (pan-Pacific industry forum). J.-C. Spender served in experimental submarines in the Royal Navy, then studied engineering at Oxford (Balliol), worked as a nuclear submarine reactor engineer with Rolls-Royce & Associates, a sales manager with IBM (UK), a consultant with Decision Technology International (Boston), and an investment banker with Slater-Walker Securities. His PhD thesis (Manchester Business School) won the Academy of Management's 1980 A.T. Kearney PhD Research Prize, later published as Industry Recipes (Blackwell, 1989). He served on the faculty at City University, London, York University, Toronto, UCLA, and Rutgers. He was Dean of the School of Business and Technology at SUNY/FIT before retiring in 2003. He now researches, writes, and lectures on organization theory, strategy and knowledge management in the USA, Canada, and Europe, with Visiting Professor appointments at Lund University, ESADE, Cranfield, Leeds, and Open Universities. Klappentext This Handbook provides a much needed, authoritative, and inter-disciplinary survey of concepts, applications, and research on human capital, the stock of human capabilities and knowledge found in organizations. It is designed for scholars and graduate students in business and across the social sciences, as well as policy makers and practitioners. Zusammenfassung This Handbook provides a much needed, authoritative, and inter-disciplinary survey of concepts, applications, and research on human capital, the stock of human capabilities and knowledge found in organizations. It is designed for scholars and graduate students in business and across the social sciences, as well as policy makers and practitioners. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: The Nature of Human Capital 1: Margaret M. Blair: An Economic Perspective on the Notion of Human Capital 2: Janine Nahapiet: A Social Perspective: Exploring the Links between Human Capital and Social Capital 3: Kok-Yee Ng, Mei Ling Tan and Soon Ang: Culture Capital and Cosmopolitan Human Capital: the Impact of the Global Mindset and Organizational Routines on Cultural Intelligence and International Experiences 4: Rhett Brymer, Michael A. Hitt, and Mario Schijven: Cognition and Human Capital: The Dynamic Interrelationship between Knowledge and Behaviour 5: Peter Lewin: Critical Perspective: Reflections on the Nature and Scope of the Concept of Capital and its Extension to Intangibles - a Capital-Based Approach to the Firm Part II: Human Capital and the Firm 6: Nicolai J. Foss: Human Capital and Transaction Cost Economics 7: J.-C. Spender: Human Capital and Agency Theory 8: Jeroen Kraaijenbrink: Human Capital in the Resource-based View 9: Brian J. Loasby: Human Capital, Entrepreneurship and the Theory of the Firm 10: Georg von Krogh, and Martin W. Wallin: Human Capital and the Knowledge-based Theory of the Firm Part III: Human Capital and Organizational Effectiveness 11: Peter Boxall: Human Capital, HR Strategy and Organizational Effectiveness 12: Monika Hamori, Ro...
