Intellectual capital and resilience: evidence from two cases of SMEs

IF 3.2 4区管理学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Knowledge Management Research & Practice Pub Date : 2022-07-25 DOI:10.1080/14778238.2022.2103047

L. Agostini, A. Nosella

引用次数: 4

Abstract

ABSTRACT Disruptive changes, such as the ones caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, oblige firms to develop the ability to be resilient in this unstable environment if they want to stay competitive. In this context, the aim of this article is to unveil how intellectual capital (IC) may foster resilience in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). To serve this purpose, this article presents the results of a qualitative analysis of two SMEs during the COVID-19 pandemic. The most significant evidence is that a combination of the components of IC, namely human capital, organisational capital, and relational capital, is useful for SMEs to respond to changing conditions and take advantage of emergent opportunities, which means going through the prepare-respond-transform resilience process. This article is among the first attempting to elucidate the relationship between IC and SME resilience. It reveals a tight connection between these two concepts, which still deserves further investigation.

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智力资本与弹性:来自两个中小企业案例的证据

颠覆性的变化，如COVID-19疫情引发的变化，迫使企业在这种不稳定的环境中培养适应能力，如果他们想保持竞争力。在这种背景下，本文的目的是揭示智力资本(IC)如何促进中小企业(SMEs)的弹性。为此，本文介绍了对COVID-19大流行期间两家中小企业的定性分析结果。最重要的证据是，集成集成的组成部分，即人力资本、组织资本和关系资本的组合，对中小企业应对不断变化的条件和利用紧急机会是有用的，这意味着要经历准备-响应-转变的弹性过程。本文是首次尝试阐明集成电路和中小企业弹性之间的关系。它揭示了这两个概念之间的紧密联系，这仍值得进一步研究。

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7.00

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15.60%

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期刊介绍： Knowledge management is a term that has worked its way into the mainstream of both academic and business arenas since it was first coined in the 1980s. Interest has increased rapidly during the last decade and shows no signs of abating. The current state of the knowledge management field is that it encompasses four overlapping areas: •Managing knowledge (creating/acquiring, sharing, retaining, storing, using, updating, retiring) •Organisational learning •Intellectual capital •Knowledge economics Within (and across) these, knowledge management has to address issues relating to technology, people, culture and systems.