Alan Burton-Jones heads an international management consultancy practice headquartered in Australia and is a senior visiting lecturer at New South Wales, Griffith and Bond Universities. His academic research focuses on the role of knowledge in organizations and the links between strategy, intellectual resources and organizational effectiveness. He is the author of Knowledge Capitalism: Business, Work and Learning in the New Economy (Oxford University Press, (1999) (Nikkei 2002) and his writings have also been published in a number of leading international journals. He contributed to the Australian government report on the knowledge-based economy in APEC countries (DISR 2000) ,the first national Knowledge Management Framework published by Standards Australia and the establishment of the Asia-Pacific Learning and Knowledge Management Council (pan-Pacific industry forum).

J.-C. Spender served in experimental submarines in the Royal Navy, then studied engineering at Oxford (Balliol), worked as a nuclear submarine reactor engineer with Rolls-Royce & Associates, a sales manager with IBM (UK), a consultant with Decision Technology International (Boston), and an investment banker with Slater-Walker Securities. His PhD thesis (Manchester Business School) won the Academy of Management's 1980 A.T. Kearney PhD Research Prize, later published as Industry Recipes (Blackwell, 1989). He served on the faculty at City University, London, York University, Toronto, UCLA, and Rutgers. He was Dean of the School of Business and Technology at SUNY/FIT before retiring in 2003. He now researches, writes, and lectures on organization theory, strategy and knowledge management in the USA, Canada, and Europe, with Visiting Professor appointments at Lund University, ESADE, Cranfield, Leeds, and Open Universities.

• Part I: The Nature of Human Capital


• 1: Margaret M. Blair: An Economic Perspective on the Notion of Human Capital


• 2: Janine Nahapiet: A Social Perspective: Exploring the Links between Human Capital and Social Capital


• 3: Kok-Yee Ng, Mei Ling Tan and Soon Ang: Culture Capital and Cosmopolitan Human Capital: the Impact of the Global Mindset and Organizational Routines on Cultural Intelligence and International Experiences


• 4: Rhett Brymer, Michael A. Hitt, and Mario Schijven: Cognition and Human Capital: The Dynamic Interrelationship between Knowledge and Behaviour


• 5: Peter Lewin: Critical Perspective: Reflections on the Nature and Scope of the Concept of Capital and its Extension to Intangibles - a Capital-Based Approach to the Firm


• Part II: Human Capital and the Firm


• 6: Nicolai J. Foss: Human Capital and Transaction Cost Economics


• 7: J.-C. Spender: Human Capital and Agency Theory


• 8: Jeroen Kraaijenbrink: Human Capital in the Resource-based View


• 9: Brian J. Loasby: Human Capital, Entrepreneurship and the Theory of the Firm


• 10: Georg von Krogh, and Martin W. Wallin: Human Capital and the Knowledge-based Theory of the Firm


• Part III: Human Capital and Organizational Effectiveness


• 11: Peter Boxall: Human Capital, HR Strategy and Organizational Effectiveness


• 12: Monika Hamori, Rocio Bonet, and Peter Cappelli: How Organizations obtain the Human Capital they need


• 13: David Lepak, Riki Takeuchi, and Juani Swart: Aligning Human Capital with Organizational Needs


• 14: Russell Coff: Maximizing Value from Human Capital


• 15: Robin Kramar, Vijaya Murthy and James Guthrie: Accounting for Human Capital and Organizational Effectiveness


• Part IV: Human Capital Interdependencies


• 16: Robert M. Grant and James C. Hayton: Interdependencies between People in Organizations


• 17: David O'Donnell: Interdependencies between Human and Structural Capital


• 18: Ikujiro Nonaka, Ryoko Toyoma, and Vesa Peltokorpi: The Distributed and Dynamic Dimensions of Human Capital


• 19: Jacqueline C. Vischer: Human Capital and the Organization-Accommodation Relationship


• 20: Alan Burton-Jones and Andrew Burton-Jones: Interdependencies between People and Information Systems in Organizations


• Part V: Human Capital in the Future Economy


• 21: David J. Teece: Human Capital, Capabilities and the Firm: Literati, Numerati, and Entrepreneurs in the 21st Century Enterprise


• 22: Peter D. Sherer: Looking to the Future: Bringing Organizations Deeper into Human Capital Theory


• 23: Sean Ó Riain: Human Capital Formation Regimes: States, Markets and Human Capital in an Era of Globalisation


• 24: Thomas Clarke: Supporting Human Capital in Developing Countries: The Significance of the Asian Experience


• 25: Thomas A. Kochan and Adam Seth Litwin: The Future of Human Capital: An Employment Relations Perspective