Perspectives on Intellectual Capital: Multidisciplinary Insights Into Management, Measurement, and Reporting [Paperback]

Bernard Marr (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0750677996 | ISBN-13: 978-0750677998 | Publication Date: January 19, 2005

Perspectives on Intellectual Capital bridges the disciplinary gaps and facilitates knowledge transfer across disciplines, featuring views on intellectual capital from the fields of accounting, strategy, marketing, human resource management, operations management, information systems, and economics. It also offers interdisciplinary views on intellectual capital from the perspectives of public policy, knowledge management and epistemology. By analyzing the various perspectives, Editor Bernard Marr is able to present a truly comprehensive understanding of what intellectual capital is, including the "state of the art" thinking about it in each discipline, the common key trends, and the trajectories for future developments, learning, and practice.

Contributors include many of the leading thinkers in their respective disciplines: Mie Augier and David Teece on the Economic Perspective, Bernard Marr and Goran Roos on the Strategy Perspective, Baruch Lev, Leandro Canibano, and Bernard Marr on the Accounting Perspective; Sudi Sudarsanam, Ghulam Sorwar, and Bernard Marr on the Finance Perspective; Jan Mourtisen, Per Nikolaj Bukh, and Bernard Marr on the Reporting Perspective; Lisa Fernstrom on the Marketing Perspective; Ulf Johanson on the HR Perspective; L. Martin Clotier and E. Richard Gold on the Legal Perspective; Partick H. Sullivan on the Intellectual Property Perspective; Giovanni Schiuma, Antonio Lerro, and Daniela Carlucci on the Interfirm Perspective; Ahmed Bounfour and Leif Edvinsson on the Public Policy Perspective; J-C Spender and Bernard Marr on a Knowledge-Based Perspective; Goran Roos on An Epistemology Perpsective. Foreword by Robert Grant.

Bernard Marr is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Business Performance at Cranfield School of Management, UK, and Visiting Professor, University of Basilicata, Italy.

* The only interdisciplinary approach to Intellectual Capital
* Contributors are leading scholars in their fields
* Concluding chapter pulls together all the perspectives into a coherent concept of Intellectual Capital

Editorial Reviews

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"Outstanding! Bernard Marr has drawn on the top pioneers and experts in intellectual capital to provide an indispensable resource for investors and executives."
-Verna Allee, author of The Future of Knowledge: Increasing Prosperity through Value Networks

"This book sets a standard for management thinking now and into the future."
- Professor James Guthrie, Faculty of Economics and Business, The University of Sydney, Australia

"For many, intellectual capital remains a fad-ridden minefield. Bernard Marr negotiates a route through the distracting complications to prove that intellectual capital is the essence of modern business."
- Stuart Crainer, Editor, Financial Times Handbook of Management, Editorial
Fellow, London Business School

"...the first systematic and scientific approach on the way to elucidate the concept of intellectual capital and on the critical process of deploying intangible assets to establish and sustain competitive advantages."
- Dr. José Ma. Viedma Martí, President of Intellectual Capital Management Systems and Professor of Business Administration at Polytechnic University of Catalonia

"This book provides valuable insights for absolute IC-beginners as well as for IC-pioneers, like myself, and I highly recommend it to all who are interested in leveraging their company's, regions or nations value creating potential."
- Dr. Ante Pulic, Professor of Finance, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Book Description

The only interdisciplinary approach to Intellectual Capital

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann (January 19, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0750677996
• ISBN-13: 978-0750677998
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,238,349 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Bernard Marr is a leading global authority and best-selling author on organisational performance and business success.

In this capacity he regularly advises leading companies, organisations and governments across the globe, which makes him an acclaimed and award-winning keynote speaker, researcher, consultant and teacher. Bernard Marr is acknowledged by the CEO Journal as one of today's leading business brains.

Bernard Marr has written a number of seminal books and over 200 high profile reports and articles on managing organisational performance and enterprise business intelligence. This includes the best-sellers 'The Intelligent Company', 'Managing and Delivering Performance' and 'Strategic Performance Management', a number of Gartner Reports, and the world's largest research studies on the topic.

Organisations he has advised include Accenture, Astra Zeneca, the Bank of England, Barclays, BP, DHL, Fujitsu, Gartner, HSBC, Mars, the Ministry of Defence, the Home Office, the NHS, Tetley, Royal Air Force, and Royal Dutch Shell.

Prior to his role at the Advanced Performance Institute Bernard Marr held influential positions at the University of Cambridge and at Cranfield School of Management. Today, he also holds a number of visiting professorships and serves on the editorial boards of many leading journals and publications including the Business Strategy Series.

Bernard Marr's expert comments on organisational performance have been published in a range of high-profile publications including in the Financial Times, the Sunday Times, Financial Management, the CFO Magazine and the Wall Street Journal.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece, July 10, 2005

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This review is from: Perspectives on Intellectual Capital: Multidisciplinary Insights Into Management, Measurement, and Reporting (Paperback)

I find this book by Bernard Marr a masterpiece for any one interested in the field of intellectual capital. Marr systematically and thoroughly walks the reader through the broad spectrum of constructs that form part of this multi-disciplinary research field (economics, strategy, accounting, human resources, information technology, etc.). The target audience of this book is anybody interested in the field of intellectual capital, from readers relatively novel in the field, to researchers. Marr has done a terrific job in putting together this book with contributions from top experts in intellectual capital, bridging the gap between the academic and the practitioner's worlds. I enjoyed the book in its entirety, but I found the last chapter particularly enlightening, in that Marr offers an interdisciplinary overview of the evolution of intellectual capital. The chapter is the first published document I have come across that attempts to create a holistic understanding of the subject, bringing together the different perspectives. I am hopeful that this book will further enhance awareness across many related disciplines, and therefore open doors for future research cross-fertilization and collaboration. As an executive, I also highly recommend this book to anyone interested in furthering his or her thinking in a field that is critical to every business.