Purpose To analyze differences between Western and Eastern cultures in the way they conceptualize knowledge and discuss the implications of these differences for a global intellectual capital (IC) theory and practice. Design/methodology/approach A systematic metaphor analysis of the concept of knowledge …

Onderzoek heeft zich een vaste plaats veroverd in het HBO. In 2008 trekt het Ministerie van Onderwijs 50 miljoen uit voor praktijkgericht onderzoek via lectoraten en nog eens 11 miljoen voor praktijkgericht onderzoek via de Regionale Aandacht en Actie voor Kenniscirculatie (RAAK) regeling. Ondertussen …

In de regio Zuid-Kennemerland (bestaande uit de gemeenten Haarlem, Heemstede, Bloemendaal, Zandvoort, Haarlemmerliede/Spaarnwoude en Bennebroek) zijn sinds acht jaar Sociale Teams actief. Sociale Teams zijn multidisciplinaire samenwerkingsverbanden gericht op de signalering en aanpak van multiproblemsituaties. …

With the rise of the knowledge-based economy in Asia, Western-dominated organizational literature is being exported to Asian countries. There is a huge interest from businesses and universities in China, Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and other countries in Asia and the Middle-East to …

The value of CUlTent organizations and industries is increasingly located in intangibles (human capital, structural capital and relational capital) and basically,knowledgehasbecomea factor of production and a main asset. This Intellectual Capital does not appear on balance sheets,but ultimately does …

Metaphor is one of the important discursive themes in organizational literature (Grant et al.,2001). Metaphors play an important role in the discourse within organizations as well as in theorizing about organizations. This empirical paper focuses on the latter by analysing the role of metaphor in the …

With the rise of the knowledge-based economy, Higher Education Institutions not only have to produce (under)graduates that are skilled in their profession but who also are competent as knowledge workers. This study focused on the enabling competences of the knowledge worker. Our aim was to develop a …

People and their relations are the hart of success of every organization. Although there are no studies that directly relate company success to the happiness of the workforce, it is common sense that communities which are over longer periods working under tension are most likely to be less productive. …

In December of 2004 the Directorate General for Research and Technological Development (DG RTD) of the European Commission (EC) set up a High-Level Expert Group to propose a series of measures to stimulate the reporting of Intellectual Capital in research intensive Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises …

Purpose – To analyse common metaphors used in the intellectual capital (IC) and knowledge management literatures to conceptualise knowledge, in order to study the nature of the intellectual capital concept. Design/methodology/approach – A textual analysis methodology is used to analyse texts from The …