Ivona Orzea

The entropic intellectual capital model

The purpose of this paper is to develop a strategic perspective of the organisational intellectual capital through a shift from the static, dynamic, and evolving intellectual capital paradigms to a strategic intellectual capital paradigm. We introduce the entropic intellectual capital model based on a new conceptual framework. The main features of this new model are: intellectual capital is a result of the dynamics of the cognitive, emotional, and spiritual knowledge fields; intellectual capital potential can be transformed into operational intellectual capital through the work of integrators; dynamic capabilities contribute to the renewal of the potential intellectual capital through innovation and learning; and leadership vision is the entropic driving force of strategy elaboration and implementation.

The Multifield Structure of Organizational Knowledge

The purpose of this chapter is to present a coherent analysis of the multifield structure of organizational knowledge. This new analysis goes beyond the metaphor of knowledge as stuff, or knowledge as stocks and flows, to the metaphor of knowledge as energy. The organizational knowledge is considered as a dynamic integration of the cognitive knowledge field, emotional knowledge field, and spiritual knowledge field. The chapter evidences the main characteristics of these fields and then describes the multiple forms of knowledge. Cognitive knowledge, emotional knowledge, and spiritual knowledge constitute the fundamental triple helix of the organizational knowledge field. The chapter advances the hypothesis of knowledge transformation from one form into another one, especially cognitive knowledge transformation into emotional knowledge, and of the emotional knowledge into the cognitive knowledge.