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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Knowledge capital"”.
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Defining and Measuring "Knowledge Capital" in Health Service
"Knowledge capital" comes in many forms based on the context of its creation, some in terms of pure knowledge, some of which is public good and some rival. Furthermore, some of its forms are less easy to describe since it includes custom, practice and understanding of how best to organise things. …
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Two essays in asset pricing
The first essay, Knowledge Capital and Innovation Efficiency Effects on Stock Returns, provides a novel framework for understanding innovation in the asset pricing literature. Prior research shows that stock returns are increasing in firms' innovative efficiency. In a dynamic model of investment in …
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The Value of Technology Transfer on the Development of Entrepreneurship Capabilities: A Study of the Educational Technology Industry in Hong Kong
Technology transfer, also known as knowledge transfer or knowledge exchange, is an integral mission of universities, supplementing their core functions of teaching, learning, and research. Each of the eight publicly funded universities in Hong Kong has set up Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs) to …
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An exploration of architectural innovation in professional service firms
… innovation is achieved using architectural knowledge to reconfigure an established system to link together components in a new way that provides a competitive advantage. Components in professional service firms are the expertise areas in which the firms have developed proficiency or those in …
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Essays in Corporate Finance and Corporate Innovation
… Firms grant more RFOs if they have more knowledge capital, more patents awarded, more citations received by these patents, and more patents for “breakthrough” innovations. After the risk of poaching by rival firms is diminished by the adoption of the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine, I find …
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Strategies to support 50-Year continuity for Alberta's Tomorrow Project
… adopt succession planning strategies to secure knowledge capital and transitions through multiple generations of leadership. Project stakeholders have established the desire to integrate succession plans through knowledge management and talent management strategies for long-term sustainability. …
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Endogenous growth: Contributions of education to economic development in Korea and policy implications
… of this research is to explore the role of human capital as a source of economic growth in Korea. This paper considers the relation of education to per-capita growth in the medium term in seven East-Asian countries. This includes in addition to basic education the relation of higher education via …
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Sustainable and Environmentally Responsible Future for Businesses and Society
… the intersection of financial innovation, knowledge capital, governance and resource sustainability for knowledge synthesis in the domain of responsible management. This study synthesises 11 interrelated studies, utilising rich cross-country and firm-level econometric investigations to …
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The determinants of foreign direct investment in Turkey: an empirical analysis
… in Turkey between 1982 and 2007. Employing a knowledge-capital model, this study finds that joint national incomes, per capita difference, investment liberalisation and the cost of exporting to Turkey have significant effects on FDI in Turkey. In addition, the prospect of European Union …
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The Impact Of China’s Outward Foreign Direct Investment On The Bilateral Trade With Belt And Road Countries – The Case Of Central And Eastern European Countries (2005-2023)
… FDI (HFDI), Vertical FDI (VFDI), and the Knowledge-Capital (KC) model that combines HFDI and VFDI. The first literature on HFDI began with Markusen (1984), which indicates that firms conducting HFDI typically set up production in countries close to consumers to avoid high trade costs …
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Governance, informality and agency in the making of cross-border mopane worm livelihoods in Southern Africa
… with privileged access to market information, knowledge, capital, and resources, enabling them to navigate the constraints and incompatibilities that characterise informal cross-border trade. The study underscores the need to streamline statutory, customary, and informal governance approaches …
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Creating multi-stakeholder value by leveraging high performance work practices: an intellectual capital perspective
… robust influence on organization’s Intellectual Capital (IC) makes it pertinent for the scholars to further evaluate and enrich this relationship particularly in a knowledge-intensive environment. This is because of the current research that indicates that PSFs being knowledge-reliant firms are …
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An exploration of the innovation process in small digital marketing agencies in the UK : understanding the social, knowledge and structural capital implications
… inter-organisational relationships and sharing knowledge. In service innovation one key characteristic of the service innovation process is the involvement of parties from the external environment of organisations, such as clients, among others, who provide beneficial resources, particularly to …
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A humán tőke beépítése a stratégiai teljesítménymenedzsment-rendszerbe: a leadership szerepe egy vezető magyarországi pénzügyi szolgáltató esetében = Integrating human capital into strategic performance management system: the role of leadership at a leading Hungarian financial service provider
… resources – or with other words: intellectual or knowledge capital – has been one of the most intensively discussed topics of organizational and management studies in the last 25 years both from theoretical and practical aspects. Various scholars with different background – from strategy …
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Innovation capability and firm performance heterogeneity in the small and medium sided enterprise sector
… is formalized as an input-output system where knowledge capital as an intermediate output of firm-level innovative activities is hypothesized to contribute to enhancing labor productivity through the Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) production function. The third chapter introduces the …
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Mapping and auditing indigenous knowledge and its management environment: a comparative study of Kenya and South Africa
Knowledge management (KM) is increasingly popularized in various societies, organizations and governments because of its confirmed importance in fostering knowledge creation, codification and transfer, and development of knowledge capital capability. Indigenous knowledge (IK), which forms part of …
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Essays in New Economic Geography
… by Baldwin, Martin and Ottaviano (2001), where capital is immobile and spillovers are localized, Martin and Ottaviano (1999) where spillovers are global and capital is mobile. Other related papers are Baldwin (1999) which introduces forward looking expectations in the so-called Footloose capital …