The Dynamics of Intellectual Capital in Current Era

1. Front Matter

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2. Ambidextrous Intellectual Capital (AIC): A Measuring Framework

   • Tarique Mahmood, Muhammad Shujaat Mubarik, Tahir Islam, Navaz Naghavi

   Pages 1-30

3. Educational Context of Intellectual Capital: An Exploratory Four-Factor Study

   • Janet L. Hanson, Muhammad Niqab, Arthur Bangert

   Pages 31-62

4. The Role of Intellectual Capital as a Determinant of Firm Value

   • Rumeysa Bilgin

   Pages 63-83

5. Intellectual Capital and Firm Internationalization

   • Ekaterina Panarina

   Pages 85-102

6. Relational Capital and Blockchain: Can Smart Contracts Redefine the Nature of Inter-organisational Cooperation?

   • José Brache, Anne Marie Zwerg-Villegas

   Pages 103-128

7. Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Sustainable Development Goals: An Evaluation of Emerging Economies

   • Suborna Barua

   Pages 129-148

8. Managing Intellectual Capital for Open Innovation: Components and Processes?

   • Muhammad Faraz Mubarak, Monika Petraite, Kristina Kebure

   Pages 149-169

9. The Proliferation of Intellectual Capital Through Leadership

   • Muhammad Mumtaz Khan, Jia Guozhu, Syed Saad Ahmed, Farhan Sohail, Muhammad Ali

   Pages 171-186

10. Efficient Utilization of Intellectual Capital for Sustainable Development: A Case of Pakistan

    • Hina Amin, Wasim Abbas

    Pages 187-203

11. Enhancing Intellectual Capital and Organizational Performance Through Talent Management

    • Syed Saad Ahmed, Muhammad Mumtaz Khan, Essa Khan, Farhan Sohail, Noman Mahmood

    Pages 205-220

12. Modelling Intellectual Capital with Financial Inclusion: The Mediating Role of Economic Growth

    • Muhammad Ali, Rajah Rasiah, Chin Hong Puah, Tazeen Arsalan, Anum Hashmi

    Pages 221-236

13. Web Domain as a Proxy for Intangibles in Measuring the MNEs’ Internationalization

    • Lukasz Bryl

    Pages 237-256

14. Managing Intellectual Capital Through Strategic Leadership: A Complementary Approach

    • Imran Shafique, Nosheen Rafi, Masood Nawaz Kalyar

    Pages 257-274

15. Intellectual Capital and Supply Chain Mapping: A Proposed Framework

    • Mahmoood Ali, Muhammad Shujaat Mubarik, Sajid Nazir

    Pages 275-290

This book provides an authoritative, inter-disciplinary, and up-to-date survey of relevant concepts, research areas, and applications of intellectual capital. Until now, the literature had lacked a comprehensive analysis of intellectual capital (IC) in regard to sustainability, block chain, and other related technologies and virtual environments. This book shows the importance of intellectual capital for contemporary organizations: how it contributes to theories of the firm, how it affects organizational performance, how is it linked with the organizational ambidexterity, how it connects to the technological developments like block chain and digital technologies, and what would be its association with sustainability. Central to our thesis is the systemic nature of intellectual capital in organizations: how intellectual capital interacts with and complements other organizational resources and developments. This book also shows as to how applying the notion of intellectual capital toorganizations requires us to consider how intangible forms of capital differ from more traditional forms, implying the need for a theory of firm that accommodates a concept of dynamic, heterogeneous intellectual capital. Although a lot has been written on IC, this book proves to be the first with scholastic and action-oriented perspective on as to how a firm can manage its IC to create value. This book also demonstrates as to how the subjective aspects of IC can be measured and what can be their strategic implications. A discussion on IC disclosure also appears in the latter part of the book.   In doing so, this book reveals as to how the value creation of today’s businesses is driven by the IC. This book also introduces the readers to the new application of IC and its association with the contemporary disruptive technologies.

This is a book for IC researchers and academicians who want to understand the diverse aspects of IC, for business managers who want to be at the cutting edge, for those early in their careers who seek a challenging new path, and for the top-level managers of the world who have their eye on the future.

• Intellectual Capital (IC)
• Human Capital (HC)
• Relational Capital
• Structural Capital
• Measuring Intellectual Capital
• Ambidextrous Intellectual Capital (AIC)
• Social Capital
• Intellectual Capital Analytics
• Intellectual Capital and supply chain management
• Intellectual Capital Development

• School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China

  Muhammad Shahbaz

• College of Business Management, Institute of Business Management (IoBM), Karachi, Pakistan

  Muhammad Shujaat Mubarik

• Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Karachi, Pakistan

  Tarique Mahmood

Dr. Muhammad Shahbaz is Professor of Energy at School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, China. He is also Visiting Research Fellow at Cambridge University, UK. With citations of 32,036, he is ranked among the top 10 energy researcher of the world. He has also been conferred the award of “Scientist of the Year” by Turkish government. Dr. Shahbaz’s areas of interest are economics of human capital, energy economics, environmental economics and sustainability. He is author of more than 600 research papers and 10 books on the various topics entrenching from human capital to energy economics. Dr. Shahbaz regularly appears in the national and international media as economic expert.


Dr. Muhammad Shujaat Mubarik is currently Professor and Associate Dean at College of Business Management, Institute of Business Management (IoBM), Karachi, Pakistan. His research areas are intellectual capital management, industry 4.0 supply chain management, resilience, and sustainability. He has published a number of high-quality research papers in journals of high repute. He has developed human capital index, which is used by the firms to gauge their levels of human capital. Dr. Mubarik is also a consultant and trainer of various prominent international firms from fertilizer, textile, and steel. He also regularly conducts workshops on advanced DEMATEL, AHP, ANP, and supply chain management.


Mr. Tarique Mahmood is Senior Lecturer at Muhammad Ali Jinnah University, Karachi, Pakistan. His area of interest is ambidextrous intellectual capital and firm performance strategies. He has published his work in Journal of Intellectual capital,
Technological Forecasting and Social Change and Human Systems Management, etc. He is also a certified master trainer of higher education commission (HEC), Pakistan.

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