In present days more and more academics and practitioners are seeking to
understand how organizations manage their knowledge and intellectual
capital in order to obtain more effective competitive advantages. Taking
into account these issues, and in order to answer the concerns expressed
by these professionals, this book looks to help them to understand and
implement in their organizations effective transfer and management of
knowledge strategies. It looks for ways to understand and perceive how
organizational HR, individually and as a team, conceptualize, invent,
adapt, define and use this knowledge and intellectual capital. The book
has a special interest in research on important issues that transcend
the boundaries of single academic subjects and managerial functions.
In a modern world, characterized by high levels of competition and
complexity, only those organizations which can manage, efficiently, all
their assets can survive. Among these the management of knowledge and
intellectual assets is a recent and challenging process. Only with human
talent organizations can survive. Conscious of these priorities, this
book is of great relevance as it looks for ways to understand and
perceive how organizational HR, individually and as a team,
conceptualize, invent, adapt, define, transfer and use knowledge and
intellectual capital. It is, also, very important and with positive
implications to practitioners and academics, as it will contribute to a
more effective advance and tool of communication in what concerns the
understanding of key issues related to the knowledge management and
intellectual capital in competitive organizations management all over
the world.
