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- Intellectual capital disclosure: a study applied to the Shanghai rankingPublication . Silva, Cristina; Vale, José; Branco, ManuelIn the so-called knowledge economy, organizations’ value is mostly a consequence of the development of their Intellectual Capital (IC) and Higher Education Organizations (HEO) are not an exception. Such organizations are considered crucial agents in this type of society due to their main role in the creation and dissemination of knowledge. HEOs have been pressed, by their different stakeholders, to disclose more flexible, transparent, competitive and comparable information. The focus of most IC literature is on its measurement and management. This paper addresses a rather different topic, the voluntary disclosure of HEOs’ IC through a specific channel of communication: their web pages. This goal of this paper is twofold. First, it aims at assessing the extent of IC disclosure. Second, it also seeks to assess the quality of such disclosure. Data wer collected from the web pages of the top 40 HEOs belonging to the Academic Ranking of World Universities, the Shangai Ranking, and a Content Analysis technique was adopted to codify such data. Results suggest that Structural Capital is the dimension of IC regarding which HEOs disclosure levels are higher and qualitatively better, followed by Relational Capital and finally Human Capital. This paper contributes to a better unerstanding of how HEOs’ IC is disclosed through web pages, terms of both extent and quality of such disclosure. Furthermore, it contributes to raise awareness among both researchers and practitioners regarding research on IC disclosure through web sites. This study is not without limitations. Specifically, it should be noticed that Content Analysis involves judgement, something which can be subjective. The size of the sample is also a limitation. Therefore, future research should use larger samples.
- Intellectual Capital in a Seaport ContextPublication . Vale, José; Branco, Manuel; Ribeiro, JoãoThis poster, which is the result of an ongoing PhD thesis project, illustrates how and why the Intellectual Capital (IC) concept can be applied to a seaport. As far as the authors are aware, most of the research in IC has been focused on individual firms. Although some recent papers examine macro-level organizations, such as regions, none exist on seaports. Also, there is a lack of research related to the ways IC is created and maintained as a dynamic process. In addition, there is a paucity of management sciences’ research on to maritime transportation and seaports. Several research questions are thus pertinent, whose answers can have important strategic and managerial implications for the seaport and its stakeholders.
- The Port as a “Non Consensual” Organisation: An IC Management PerspectivePublication . Vale, José; Branco, Manuel; Ribeiro, JoãoThis paper addresses a gap in the literature concerning the management of Intellectual Capital (IC) in a port, which is a network of independent organizations that act together in the provision of a set of services. As far as the authors are aware, this type of empirical context has been unexplored when regarding knowledge management or IC creation/destruction. Indeed, most research in IC still focus on individual firms, despite the more recent interest placed on the analysis of macro-level units such as regions or nations. In this study, we conceptualise the port as meta-organisation, which has the generic goal of economic development, both for itself and for the region where it is located. It provides us with a unique environment due to its complexity as an “organisation” composed by several organisations, connected by interdependency relationships and, typically, with no formal hierarchy. Accordingly, actors’ interests are not always aligned and in some situations their individual interests can be misaligned with the collective goals of the port. Moreover, besides having their own interests, port actors also have different sources of influence and different levels of power, which can impact on the port’s Collective Intellectual Capital (CIC). Consequently, the management of the port’s CIC can be crucial in order for its goals to be met. With this paper we intend to discuss how the network coordinator (the port authority) manages those complex relations of interest and power in order to develop collaboration and mitigate conflict, thus creating collective intellectual assets or avoiding intellectual liabilities that may emerge for the whole port. The fact that we are studying complex and dynamic processes, about which there is a lack of understanding, in a complex and atypical organisation, leads us to consider the case study as an appropriate method of research. Evidence presented in this study results from preliminary interviews and also from document analysis. Findings suggest that alignment of interests and actions, at both dyadic and networking levels, is critical to develop a context of collaboration/cooperation within the port community and, accordingly, the port coordinator should make use of different types of power in order to ensure that port’s goals are achieved.