Research

Our research focuses on concepts and techniques for organizing and managing people and other intellectual resources and on the links between resource management and organizational effectiveness:

Areas of research include:

Theories of the firm
Corporate governance
Organizational learning
Knowledge management
Culture and diversity management
Strategic sourcing (insourcing and outsourcing)
Value creation and appropriation
Business performance analysis

For further information see:

Highlights and Features

Latest book:The Oxford Handbook of Human Capital, Alan Burton-Jones & J-C. Spender, (eds.) Oxford University Press (2011)

More information

Knowledge Capitalism:Business,Work and Learning in the New Economy

Alan Burton-Jones
Oxford University Press,1999, 2001
Nikkei, 2002 ( Japanese translation)

Knowledge Capitalism probes the surface of economic and social change, revealing how the shift to an economy based increasingly on intangible intellectual resources is redefining firms, empowering individuals, and reshaping the links between learning and work.

More information visit the OUP site