Journal of Intellectual Capital: Volume 22 Issue 2

Guest editorial

Francesco Schiavone, Alberto Ferraris, Samuel Fosso Wamba, Sanjay Kumar Singh

Knowledge and intellectual capital in internationalizing SMEs, case study in technology-based health companies

Amir Zakery, Mohammad Sadegh Saremi

International businesses play a significant role in the growth, innovation and survival of technology-based firms (TBFs). Creating new opportunities in international markets…

Social capital, knowledge sharing, work meaningfulness and creativity: evidence from the Pakistani pharmaceutical industry

Sabeen Hussain Bhatti, Dmitriy Vorobyev, Ramsha Zakariya, Michael Christofi

As an integral part of intellectual capital (IC), social capital (SC) has been studied as an asset crucial to social relationships among individuals and groups of individuals…

Value that matters: intellectual capital and big data to assess performance in healthcare. An empirical analysis on the European context

Ginevra Gravili, Francesco Manta, Concetta Lucia Cristofaro, Rocco Reina, Pierluigi Toma

The aim of this paper is to analyze and measure the effects of intellectual capital (IC), i.e. human capital (HC), relational capital (RC) and structural capital (SC), on…

Managing intellectual capital in healthcare organizations. A conceptual proposal to promote innovation

Hui Huang, Daniele Leone, Andrea Caporuscio, Sascha Kraus

The present article aims at rising stream of literature about intellectual capital in healthcare organizations, by exploring how knowledge-based activities are designed to promote…

Implementing integrated reporting to disclose intellectual capital in health organisations: a case study

Renata Paola Dameri, Pier Maria Ferrando

The aim of our research is to give empirical and theoretical solutions to some criticalities of the original International Integrated Reporting Framework (IIRF). Indeed, it takes…

The contribution of intellectual capital to financial stability in Indian pharmaceutical companies

Giuseppe Festa, Matteo Rossi, Ashutosh Kolte, Luca Marinelli

This research investigates the top five pharmaceutical companies in India to determine whether their financial structures are sound and if they face the risk of bankruptcy…

Knowledge management practice of medical cloud logistics industry: transportation resource semantic discovery based on ontology modelling

Fuli Zhou, Yandong He, Panpan Ma, Raj V. Mahto

The booming of the Internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques contributes to knowledge adoption and management innovation for the healthcare industry. It…

Open innovation and patenting activity in health care

Beatrice Orlando, Luca Vincenzo Ballestra, Domitilla Magni, Francesco Ciampi

The study aims to explore the interplay between open innovation and intellectual property. Differently from previous studies, we argue that open innovation fosters firm's…

Knowledge management as a driver of performance in ambulatory healthcare – a systematic literature review through an intellectual capital lens

Nina S. Pflugfelder

The purpose of this study is to investigate how Knowledge Management (KM) and Intellectual Capital (IC) can increase the organizational performance of ambulatory healthcare…