Mini-conference

“Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital: Challenges for Firms, Universities and Regions - GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE ECOLOGY”

Athens 1st World Summit on The Knowledge Society
Athens, September 24-28, 2008
http://knowledge-summit.org/

CHAIRS
Miltiadis Lytras, University of Patras, Greece, Email: Lytras AT ceid.upatras.gr
Patricia Ordonez De Pablos, Universitu of Oviedo, Email: patriop AT uniovi.es

CALL FOR PAPERS

The topics of Knowledge Management (KM), Intellectual Capital (IC), Organisational Learning (OL) and Human Resource Management are receiving increased interest both from the academic community and companies because of the influence of innovation and learning on the achievement of a competitive advantage for the firm in the New Economy. Literature on knowledge management and intellectual capital suggests that competitive advantage flows from the creation, ownership, protection, storage and use of certain knowledge-based organisational resources. Superior organisational performance depends on firms' ability to be good at innovation, learning, protecting, deploying, amplifying and measuring these strategic intangible resources.

The objective of mini-conference is to bring together a selection of new perspectives that collectively articulate a knowledge-based view of strategy management. It adopts a knowledge-based view that considers the role of the firm in the nurturing, deployment, storage and measurement of the organisation's knowledge.

Topics for the mini-conference include, but are not limited to the following:

1. Intangible resources
2. Competitive strategy
3. Knowledge-based view of the firm
4. Human capital, relational capital, social capital and organisational capital
5. Human resource management
6. Intellectual capital reporting
7. Organisational learning
8. Social networks
9. Innovation and knowledge management
10. Innovation and leadership
11. Product and process innovation
12. Technology and innovation management
13. Dynamic capabilities and routines
14. Quality
15. Case studies

Best papers from this mini-conference will be published in special issues in International Journal of Knowledge and Learning. These are the special issues:

Special Issue on: "Knowledge Management Strategies"http://www.inderscience.com/ijkl

Special Issue on: "Knowledge Management Systems"http://www.inderscience.com/ijkl

Special Issue on: "Knowledge Global Networks"

http://www.inderscience.com/ijkl

Please feel free to contact Lytras@ceid.upatras.gr if you have any questions.

International Journal of Semantic Web and Information Systems (included in SCI, Thompson Scientific) and Information Sciences (included in SCI) + One more IEEE Transactions Issue.

 Deadline for Paper Submission

Deadline for full paper submission is June 5, 2008. Please visit the website of Athens 1st World Summit on the Knowledge Society for getting information about author guidelines and your paper submission or contact Dr Tania Petrou at tania.petrou@gmail.com.

More information about the Summit

Website:  http://knowledge-summit.org/
Sponsor of the Summit: The Open Research Society (ORS) www.open-knowledge-society.org/

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