Formulating and elaborating a model for the measurement of intellectual capital in Spanish public universities

Ramírez, Yolanda; Lizano, Montserrat Manzaneque; Priego, Alba María

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“…These challenges require universities to expand their activities related to knowledge management. In this regard, a main goal of public universities is the creation and transfer of knowledge through one of their most important intangible assets: researchers (Ramı´rez et al, 2015). Academics at public universities are encouraged to generate knowledge that is relevant and useful to industry, but reputation, incentive schemes and professional career progression are also closely linked to scientific excellence (Fullwood et al, 2013).…”

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Social capital and knowledge sharing in academic research teams

García-Sánchez

Díaz

Pérez

2017

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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The purpose of this article is to analyse the role of social capital within academic research teams and its influence on knowledge sharing. An empirical study was carried out with 87 academic research teams at a Spanish university. The results show that internal ties have a positive effect on trust. Moreover, the results also reflect that both dimensions of social capital (internal ties and trust) have a positive and significant effect on research teams' knowledge sharing. Therefore, the findings reveal that the network's structure has a positive influence on the quality of relationships among academic researchers that favour knowledge sharing.

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Social capital and knowledge sharing in academic research teams

García-Sánchez

Díaz

Pérez

2017

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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“…This review revealed there was a lack of tools and scales to assess the construct in the scientific context. In an academic context, the studies that proposed scales of measurement for intellectual capital focused mostly on an institutional point of view, adopting the university as their unit of analysis (Bezhani, 2010;Ramírez and Gordillo, 2014;Ramírez et al, 2017). This lack is even more evident when we refer to the measurement and management of the intellectual capital of researchers or scientific teams.…”

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Conceptualizing academic intellectual capital: definition and proposal of a measurement scale

Frutos‐Belizón

Alcázar

Gardey

2019

JIC

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the development and validation of an instrument for measuring intellectual capital in the academic research context. The current research context describes a new paradigm of scientific production characterized by interdisciplinarity, heterogeneity and the intensification of the relations between the generators of knowledge. In this scenario, traditional measures of intellectual capital do not capture all the variables that make up the environment in which the research activities are carried out. This transformation of research processes suggests the need to bring theories of organizational behavior, more appropriate to an organizational context, to the study of scientific context. Thus, the paper contextualizes the intellectual capital approach, thereby explaining how the different attributes that build it influence scientific productivity and providing a measurement instrument to evaluate relative levels of intellectual capital in an academic research context. Design/methodology/approach The scale was designed through a double qualitative–quantitative scale development process. The literature on intellectual capital does not provide strong theoretical support for the definition of a specific set of items to be applied in the specific academic research context. Consequently, the scale constructs and observable variables were initially conceptualized through a Delphi panel. This initial set of indicators was empirically validated through a second quantitative stage to a sample of 1,798 Spanish academics. Given that no prior published studies have examined the construct validity of the proposed scale, and the proposed scale is not based on other previously validated scales, the authors used exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis to assess the internal consistency, using Cronbach’s α to determine reliability. Findings Drawing on the evidence obtained from a double qualitative–quantitative process, a scale consisting of 47 items was proposed to measure the three dimensions of intellectual capital, namely, the researcher’s human capital, as well as the nature of the social capital and organizational capital of the team in which the scholar is integrated. The process of identifying and validating indicators of intellectual capital allowed the authors to identify certain intangible elements that are key in the research process and that, therefore, determine scientific productivity. Thus, the proposed scale contributes by conceptualizing new variables that could be used to deepen and broaden the study of the determinants of research performance. The contextualization of intellectual capital approach can also help to assess the value of intangibles, offering an external reporting tool and making universities’ social contributions more visible to public and private stakeholders, justifying the efforts made by societies in the generation of academic knowledge. Research limitations/implications The empirical analysis was carried out with an initial sample of 1,798 Spanish scholars. The validation of the scale should therefore be confirmed in different national contexts, with larger data sets. Likewise, the use of longitudinal data sets could help to study the effects of intellectual capital in academic research, thereby contributing to the ongoing debate on the determinants of research performance. Originality/value From a practical perspective, the instrument could be considered both as a management and an external reporting tool, providing a self-assessment instrument of the levels of intellectual capital. As a management tool, a specific measure of intellectual capital in an academic context could help to identify training needs, the implementation of practices that encourage the capability for building research networks and the development of reports with intellectual capital-related inputs for the justification of the resources received. At an institutional level, the proposed set of indicators also identifies the attributes of scholars linked to higher scientific performance, and the scale could be used as an instrument for selection processes in academic institutions, to develop practices related to the distribution of workload or the publication of intellectual capital indicators of its researchers in a healthy exercise of transparency.

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“…Reports which are publicly available on these universities' websites for 2016-2017 academic year were content analyses, which revealed the set of IC indicators currently disclosing and covering the issues of interest to Russian universities' stakeholders emerged. These identified indicators were combined with checklist used by Bezhani (2010) [2] and predefined by the Ministry for the mandatory reporting for universities in Austria consisting of 39 IC indicators, and the checklist of Ramirez et al (2017) consisting of 31 IC' indicators as well. Selected indicators are proposed were achieved a high value in foreign practice (Ramirez et al, 2017) [12], which implies that they are essential in the measurement of IC information in Russian universities.…”

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“…These identified indicators were combined with checklist used by Bezhani (2010) [2] and predefined by the Ministry for the mandatory reporting for universities in Austria consisting of 39 IC indicators, and the checklist of Ramirez et al (2017) consisting of 31 IC' indicators as well. Selected indicators are proposed were achieved a high value in foreign practice (Ramirez et al, 2017) [12], which implies that they are essential in the measurement of IC information in Russian universities. After this stage our checklist of IC indicators was complemented by indicators from the World University Ranking Methodologies: Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), The Times Higher Education World University Rankings (THE), QS World University Rankings.…”

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The Disclosure of Intellectual Capital in Universities: Stakeholder Approach

Vakhrushina¹,

Толчеева²

2019

Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference "Far East Con" (ISCFEC 2018)

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The disclosure of Intellectual capital becomes urgent for universities, because of the fact that knowledge is the main output and input in these organizations. Furthermore, universities have ever-increasing external demands for greater transparency about the use of their intellectual capital in the globalization context. This case requires to pay particular attention to respecting universities' stakeholders interests when designing a reporting system. The aim of the present study is to provide the Intellectual capital report for Russian universities based on analyzing existing disclosure experience in national universities and comparing it with international practice through a specific system of indicators. Our proposal for an intellectual capital report is intended to be a practical guide to help the Russian universities to provide a greater transparency and comparability in the higher education sector of Russia.

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Formulating and elaborating a model for the measurement of intellectual capital in Spanish public universities

Cited by 31 publications

References 10 publications

Social capital and knowledge sharing in academic research teams

Social capital and knowledge sharing in academic research teams

Conceptualizing academic intellectual capital: definition and proposal of a measurement scale

The Disclosure of Intellectual Capital in Universities: Stakeholder Approach

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