Handled correctly, knowledge-based resources such as human capital and structural capital can provide a competitive advantage for companies and institutions as well as countries and economic regions. This reference offers new knowledge-based perspectives on strategy management as it applies to those entities in both storage and measurement of the knowledge they have. Specific subjects include: managing informal learning in workplaces: the practice of China, intellectual capital and a country's resilience in financial crisis, the role of human resource strategies and practices in developing intellectual capital for innovation in nonprofit organizations, and intellectual capital and business performance in university spin-off companies. Editors are Ordóñez (business administration, U. of Oviedo, Spain), Tennyson (educational psychology, U, of Minnesota), and Zhao (School of Management, Beijing Union U., China).
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