The Routledge Companion to Intellectual Capital

The Routledge Companion to Intellectual Capital offers a comprehensive overview of a field that has seen a diverse range of developments in research in recent years. Edited by leading scholars and with contributions from top scholars and practitioners from around the world, this volume will provide not just theory but practice and case studies.

Providing an overview of Intellectual Capital (IC) combining theoretical and practice perspectives, the Companion addresses the role of IC inside and between organisations and institutions and how these contribute to the IC of nations, regions and clusters. The Routledge Companion to Intellectual Capital will be of interest to scholars who want to understand IC from a variety of perspectives, as well as students who are seeking an authoritative source for particular aspects of IC and the knowledge management.

James Guthrie is Professor of Accounting at Macquaris University. His?research and teaching interests include public sector accounting, auditing, accountability and management, social and environmental reporting and auditing, management of knowledge and intellectual capital and the measurement of intangibles.?He has published 182 articles in both international and national refereed and professional journals, and over 42 chapters in books. In addition he has been appointed to the board of the Performance Management Association special interest group on intellectual capital, Centre for Business Performance, Cranfield School of Management, He has been visiting lecturer at the School of Management, Bath University (1987), and has been a visiting Professor at the School of Business, Stockholm University (1996), University of Siena (1998), University of Ferrara (2001/02), University of Bologna (2004), and the University of Bocconi SDA, Milan (2005).

John Dumay is Associate Professor in Accounting at Macquarie University, Sydney. He worked for over 15 years as an independent business consultant across a wide variety of industries before joining academia after completing my PhD in 2008. His PhD entitled Intellectual Capital in Action: Australian Studies won the prestigious Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award for 2008 for the Knowledge Management category. He researches on the topic of intellectual capital, non-financial accounting and reporting, innovation, research methods and academic writing. He is currently the Australasian Regional Editor of the Journal of Intellectual Capital and the Associate Editor of the Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management.

Federica Ricceri is Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Padua. Her research and teaching activities include the strategic management of knowledge resources, sustainability reporting, strategic performance measurement, management and financial accounting. She has published numerous articles in international refereed journals, as well as chapters in books. She is the author of Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Management: Strategic Management of Knowledge Resources (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies) published 2011.

Christian Neilsen is Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark and Head of the Business Model Design Centre (BMDC) at the university, His research profile lies at the intersection of management accounting, business models and intellectual capital and relates to issues of accountability and performance measurement. His innovative and visionary foresight in creating synergies and bringing experts together around a common cause in turn provides a strong and more holistic methodological and theoretical contribution to a neglected area. His research centre’s collaboration is expanding, and from primarily having European research partners, the centre now has strong links with Australasia, and more recently it has been invited to collaborate with global thought leaders such as Stanford University.