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Dear Colleagues,
Follow the call for book chapters in Springer-Handbook on Dynamics of Intellectual Capital.
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Abstract submission deadline: 10th July 2020
Editors:
Dr. Muhammad Shahbaz
Professor, School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Dr. Shujaat Mubarik
Professor , Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Karachi, Pakistan
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Tarique Mahmood
Senior Lecturer, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Karachi, Pakistan
1. Objectives and Scope
COVID19 has put the businesses into a complex and highly challenging situations (Ashton and Morton, 2005). This coupled with the technological disruptions are shifting the basis of the firm’s competitiveness from tangible to intangible resources. The resource-based researchers (Penrose 1959, Becker 1962, Wernerfelt 1984) point out that a business’s competiveness of intangible resources determine its level of success. The resource-based view (Wernerfelt 1984) claims that competitive advantage of corporation roots inside an organization through resources that are VRIN –valuable, rare, inimitable and on-substitutable. VRIN can be acquired through humans, relationship and processes collectively termed as intellectual capital (Mubarik et al. 2019). The resource-based view, therefore, associates the link between ‘what an organization has the capability to do’ and ‘what it has the opportunity to do’ (Antonelli and Colombelli 2011). Therefore, knowledge and intellect are the heart of the resource-based view of the firm and knowledge management is considered as strategic issue (Bontis, 2001). According to Carte, (2005) The productive and economic level of a firm depends mostly on its intellectual capital abilities than its tangible assets. In this context, intellectual capital possesses an apex position among the determinants of competitive advantage. Although term Intellectual Capital (IC) was coined by Galbraith (1969), its roots can be traced back to the time of industrial revolution. The classical literature on IC defines it as the employee’s knowledge and ability which can be instrumental to elevate the competitiveness of an organization. It is an invisible value of a business represented by three interrelated threads namely human capital, structural capital, and relational capital. Human capital represents employee’s attitudes, skills and competence. Structural capital is considered as organizational procedure / process, whereas relational capital represents relationships with customers, suppliers, employees and other stakeholders. It is often claimed that, besides directly contributing to the competitive advantage, an organization’s IC can be instrumental in attaining a balance between organizational efforts of exploitation and exploration, organizational ambidexterity. As a matter of fact, majority of organization, in pursuit of capitalizing existing business opportunities, ignores exploration, ability to innovate. Whereas, in reality, central to the ability of a firm to survive over time is its ability to exploit existing assets and positions in a profit-producing way and simultaneously to explore new technologies and markets. Organizations that configure and reconfigure their resources to capture existing, as well as new opportunities, are called ambidextrous organizations (O’Reilly and Tushman 2013). IC has the potential to improve organizational competitiveness by making it ambidextrous organization however, thirst-quenching scholastic work is missing in this conception. Similarly, less scholastic work has been steered in elucidating the role of ambidexterity in IC-competitive advantage relationship, requiring researchers’ attention (Jansen et al. 2012). Further, given the influx of disruptive technologies and emphasize on sustainability, some might ask as to how the intellectual capital would be perceived, measured and transpired. Further, some may question the association of intellectual capital with developments like big data, block chain technologies, digital technologies etc. Others may question as to how the dynamic, heterogeneous nature of intellectual capital (IC) in the contemporary firm fits with the traditional neoclassical view of capital as a static, homogeneous stock.
Addressing these multiple questions require a handbook providing an authoritative, inter-disciplinary, and up-to-date survey of relevant concepts, research areas, and applications of intellectual capital. Until now, the literature has lacked a comprehensive analysis of intellectual capital (IC) in regard to sustainability, block chain and other related technologies and virtual environments. The proposed handbook aims to show 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, and how it will connect 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. Handbook will also show how applying the notion of intellectual capital to organizations 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.
This call for book chapters welcomes submissions in the following areas:
2. Indicative topics are (but are not limited to):
1. Why Intellectual Capital in present era?
2. Intellectual Capital in the era of Industry 4.0
3. Intellectual Capital and Resource Based View
4. Intellectual Capital and Dynamic Capabilities
5. Measuring Intellectual Capital: Models and Methods
6. Intellectual Capital and Organizational Ambidexterity
7. Ambidextrous Intellectual Capital
8. Intellectual Capital Orientation
9. Intellectual Capital and Sustainability
10. Sustainable Intellectual Capital
11. Intellectual Capital and Big Data Analytics
12. Intellectual Capital management in the blockchain environment
13. Managing Intellectual Capital in virtual environment
14. Intellectual Capital and Supply chain management
15. Intellectual Capital: A business Strategy or Capability
16. Intellectual Capital and Open Innovation
17. Dimensions of Intellectual Capital
18. Intellectual Capital and Firm Internationalization
19. International Intellectual Capital of a firm
20. Intellectual Capital and Financial Management
Submission abstract deadline: 10th July 2020.
Acceptance abstract deadline: 15th October 2020.
Submission full text deadline: 31st December 2020
3. Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a one-page chapter proposal clearly explaining the objectives of the proposed chapter to [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] , and/or [log in to unmask] before 01 July 2020.
4. Full Chapter Submission
Complete chapters are expected to be submitted to [log in to unmask] , [log in to unmask] , and/or [log in to unmask] before October 15the, 2020.
· All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis.
· Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project, up to two manuscripts.
· Peer Reviewer Commitments: Each the accepted author is expected to be willing to review several rounds of peer reviewed chapters by set deadlines during the October-November timeline.
5. Publisher
This edited book is scheduled to be published by Springer: Springer International Publishing. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit https://www.springer.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in early 2021.
6. Guidelines
These are basic guidelines but will have to wait for the instructions from Springer.
Before we receive formal publication/editorial guidelines we thought to share with you some basic issues to consider for our book project:
7. Chapter structure:
ü Keywords: Include 5-7 keywords.
ü Key terms
ü Describe the general overview of your chapter.
ü Relationship between your chapter and the overall objectives of the book
ü Objectives
ü Contribution
ü Structure of the chapter.
ü Include facts and data from reliable sources.
ü Literature review
ü Methodology (if applicable)
ü Subheading 1
ü Subheading 2
ü Subheading 3
ü Provide a general discussion of the main contribution of your chapter,
ü Ethical concerns
ü Include recommendations for:
§ Business managers and entrepreneurs.
§ Academia and education institutions.
§ Policymakers
ü Concluding remarks