Call for Papers, Posters, Round Table Proposals, Practitioner Contributions and Product Demonstrations

Today, almost 80% of economic value creation is based on intangible resources. However, most organizations still do not have appropriate management practices that reveal the value of these resources and how to give direction to future value creation. The concept of intellectual capital gives intangibles ‘a body’ and therefore makes it possible to measure, communicate and interpret the outcomes.

At ECIC 2012 we are keen to encourage contributions that deal with a range of current and emerging research issues in the IC area, including:

1) Intellectual Capital associated with Triple Bottom Line (TBL) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

2)  Measuring and notifying the “unknown” and how to take advantage of it,

3) Intellectual Capital, Learning Organisations and complexity,

4) How to utilize increased academic knowledge and networking in promoting economic and organizational innovations and changes - and does it lead to practical and functioning solutions?

Publication opportunity
Papers presented at the conference will be published in the conference proceedings subject to author registration and payment. Selected papers presented at the conference will also be considered for publication in a special issue of the Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management. The latest issue is now available on the journal website.

The advisory group for the conference invites submissions of both academic and practitioner papers on a wide range of topics and a wide range of scholarly approaches including theoretical and empirical papers employing qualitative, quantitative and critical methods.

Academic research, case studies and work-in-progress/posters are welcomed approaches. PhD Research, proposals for roundtable discussions or knowledge cafés, non-academic contributions and product demonstrations based on the main themes are also invited. You can find full details in the submission types document.

In addition to the main conference topics below, submissions are invited to four mini tracks: Intellectual Capital and Open Innovation, chaired by Sladjana Cabrilo of the University Educons, Novi Sad, Serbia; Intellectual Capital in Practice, chaired by John Dumay of the University of Sydney, Australia; Intellectual Capital and the Accounting Debate, chaired by Cristina Maria Morariu of the Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania and Trust, Reputation and IC Formation, chaired by Klaus Bruno Schebesch of Vasile Goldis Western University Arad, Romania.

Submission details are given below. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:-

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Mini Track Call for Papers: Intellectual Capital and Open Innovation
Track Chair: Dr Sladjana Cabrilo, University Educons, Novi Sad, Serbia

Innovation is critical for our society in that it defines who we are and how a company, city, region or country evolves. It is not something that is only packaged into products and services. Innovation is a way of approaching the world. Open innovation means that the paradigm shifts from losed innovation, conceptualising a new model based on five important pillars: establishment of ties through networking, collaboration, corporate entrepreneurship, management of intellectual property, R&D. Besides innovation, it seems that intellectual capital (IC) containing intangible and knowledge-based assets also has an important impact on the economic future of a company/city/region/country. The relationship between IC and innovation is not yet fully defined, but what is certain is that these two concepts reinforce each other, shaping the future together.

The key questions for organizations, governments and societies around the world are how to drive innovation potential towards a better future and how to capitalize IC, making it the stimulus of innovation and future economic and social development. This mini track is encouraging academics as well as practitioners to disclose different approaches/models/case studies trying to answer to the following questions: How IC and (open) innovation are linked? What exactly constitutes innovation in a contemporary economic sense? How to include all innovation’s constituents (tangible and intangible) in innovation measurement methodology? How to include IC in innovation measurement methodology? How to create an effective innovation strategy/ policy for the knowledge era? What is the nature of innovation in KM? How to enhance innovation by appropriate KM?

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

§         The link between IC, open innovation and prosperity

§         An interdisciplinary approach to open innovation (nature of innovation, enablers and constrainers of innovation…)

§         IC and open innovation: the keys to benefiting with globalization

§         Innovation strategies/policies for the knowledge era (at organizational/ regional/ national/ EU/ global level)

§         Measuring and reporting of IC and innovation

§         Best practise: How to make IC to be the stimulus of open innovation?

Sladjana Cabrilo

Mini Track Call for Papers: Intellectual Capital in Practice
Track Chair: Dr John Dumay, University of Sydney, Australia

Often IC is criticised for its inability to find its way into everyday management practices of organisations. Additionally, a recent review of 10 years of the academic IC literature has identified a similar lack of attention to IC in practice. But recently the lack of attention towards IC in practice has begun to change as a third wave of IC research has begun to emerge that takes a critical examination of IC in practice. Papers for this mini track should present case-studies of how organisations implemented IC and what they learned from it. Submissions are encouraged from academics and practitioners who have gotten their “hands dirty” by working in or with organisations that have mobilised IC to make a difference.

Some recommended topics for submissions are as follows, but are not limited to:

§        Intellectual Capital reporting, internally and externally

§        Developing IC measurements and measurement systems

§         Critical reflections on how IC is implemented in practice

§        Critical reflections on IC research methodologies

§        What aspects of IC works inside an organisation

§        Identification of IC inside organisations

§        Linking IC to organisational strategy

John Dumay

Mini Track Call for Papers: Intellectual Capital and the Accounting Debate
Track Chair: Cristina Maria Morariu, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania

Intellectual capital (IC) is a concept that can be compared to unidentified flying objects in the way that researchers, academics and practitioners have been asking questions such as: What is it? Can we control/manage IC? Who can see/disclose it? Can we measure it? By trying to find answers to the above mentioned questions, this track aims at improving IC practices from an accounting perspective.  Accordingly, this Mini Track provides a platform to exchange ideas and experiences as it invites for presentation empirical research results, case studies, new approaches or new views, theoretical and practitioner contributions. Co-authored papers with industry would be especially welcomed to this track.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

§         IC recognition facing accounting principles and asset/liabilities definitions;

§         Measuring IC: from theory to practice;

§         Managing IC and its components (companies’ ability to manage IC and the tools made available to them to allow controlling the risks and benefits);

§         IC reporting practices and the determinants of IC disclosure;

§         Is there any liaison between IC and company’s performance;

§         Other related topics

Cristina Maria Morariu

Mini Track Call for Papers: Papers: Trust, Reputation and IC Formation
Track Chair: Prof. Dr. Klaus Bruno Schebesch, Vasile Goldis Western University Arad, Romania

Trust and reputation issues are "soft" concepts. Implicitly, they are important for intellectual capital (IC) formation and they are also essential to the functioning of e-environments, i.e. when designing and using "recommender systems" or "cooperative content filtration" to name just a few. In practice, cultural features of human individuals and groups are important in finding a “behaviourally sustainable mix” of both cooperation and competition, which in turn is often fundamental to the success of firms, organizations and their clusters. The general hypothesis is that the ease of formation of such behavioural sustainability will foster IC formation, which in turn will increase trust, thus further fuelling the cycle. Reputation will attract more talent (e.g. to companies) but may also hinder cooperation between peers. The role of reputation may be deeply rooted in culture.

Research related to trust and reputation is interdisciplinary, and it draws on the better understanding of both culturally moderated and universal explanatory factors. It is one route for better understanding IC formation and it contains many interesting empirical and theoretical open questions. Therefore, in the mini-track, empirical, theoretical, experimental and computational views and approaches are all welcome.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

§         organizational and cultural memory leading to increased trust, reputation

§         emotional intelligence and technology awareness (product awareness, etc.),

§         trust, reputation and cooperation formation (mechanisms, models thereof),

§         trust and innovation (including creating of new organisations, etc.),

§         building up client trust for life long or continuous learning programs, and

§         other related topics

Klaus Bruno Schebesch

Submission details

Important information:

• The selection panel of the conference committee will consider all abstracts received by the deadline date to ensure that the proposed submission is relevant to the Conference.
• Abstract selection notifications will then be sent out to relevant authors.
• All full papers will be double-blind reviewed by members of the conference committee to ensure an adequate standard, that the proposed subject of their abstract has been followed, that the paper is of a suitable length, the standard of English is adequate and the paper is appropriately referenced.
• For authors whose first language is not English we request that you have your work proof-read prior to submission by a native English speaker (or at least a fluent English speaker). Papers can be rejected due to a poor standard of English. We do offer proof-reading services.
• Papers that are accepted will be published in the conference proceedings providing at least one author registers and presents the work at the Conference (see the registration section of the conference website for more information about registration).
• Due to the large number of papers expected for this conference, the committee prefers that an author presents only one paper. However, if multiple papers are accepted for publication and presentation, each paper requires a separate registration fee.

Important dates

Updated 2 November 2011