Intangible Capital: Announcements

All authors are surveyed after their articles are published. Authors are asked to rate their experience in a variety of areas, and their responses help us to monitor our performance. Presented here are their responses in some key areas and years:

2012 - Author Survey Results

Special Issue: Servitization 2013

2013-03-11T10:15:32+01:00

II Conference on Business Servitization

Granada (Spain), 7 and 8 November 2013.

Conference web: http://www.servitization.org

EL PAPEL DE LOS RECURSOS INTANGIBLES BAJO LA LÓGICA DOMINANTE DE LA GESTION DE SERVICIOS

Gest editors: Ferran Vendrell (Universitat Politècnica de Cataluya), Oscar F. Bustinza (Universidad de Granada) & Daniel Arias Aranda (Universidad de Granada).

The fact that the provision of services generates higher margins than manufacturing has increased the incorporation of services in the portfolio of firms (Wise & Baumgartner, 1999). This process receives the name of Servitization (Vandermerwe and Rada, 1998), affecting a wide range of firms (Neely, 2008), from technology companies (Eggert et al., 2011) to creative ones (Parry et al., 2012 ).

According to the dominant logic in service management, consumer participation in the process involves a shift in the paradigm: from a goods transaction premise to an exchange of intangible resources (Vargo and Lusch, 2004). Learning and continuous adaptation to consumer needs are produced through the exchange of information and experience. The competitive advantages arising from the management of services are frequently more sustainable over time because they are based on intangibles; which hinders the competitor’s ability to imitate (Heskett et al., 2003). However, consumer participation in the service is in itself a source of uncertainty (Giannakis, 2011), which requires coordination mechanisms (Larsson and Bowen, 1989). This special issue in Intangible Capital is focused on analyzing the following issues concerning the relationship between the dominant logic of service management and the role of intangible resources:

Conceptualization of the main relevant dimensions in the servitizacion process and changes in business models.
Design and engineering of product-service systems (PSS)
Planning timing of the service incorporation in the product life cycle
Managing innovation and service operations in PSS
Analyze supply chain and production systems in the context of service management
Open Innovation Strategies in PSS
Service Operations Management
The link between intangible resources, services and global strategies
Quantitative and qualitative analysis of the link between intangible resource management and performance of service operations
Quantitative and qualitative analysis of the role of consumers in servitizacion processes and their impact on business performance.

Papers on related issues not explicitly listed above are also welcome. All submitted manuscripts must follow journal guidelines and be written in Spanish.

References

EGGERT, A.; HOGREVE, J.; ULAGA, W.; MUENKHOFF, E. (2011). Industrial services, product innovations, and firm profitability: a multiple-group latent growth curve analysis. Industrial Marketing Management, 40(2): 661–670.

GIANNAKIS, M. (2011). Management of service supply chains with a service-oriented reference model: the case of management consulting. Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, 16(5): 346-361.

HESKETT, J.L.; SASSER, W.E.; SCHLESINGER, L.A. (1997). The Service Profit Chain: How Leading Companies Link Profit and Growth to Loyalty, Satisfaction, and Value. New York: Simon and Schuster.

LARSSON, R.; BOWEN, D.E. (1989). Organization and customer: managing design and coordination of services. The Academy of Management Review, 14(2): 213-233.

NEELY. A. (2008). Exploring the financial consequences of the servitization of manufacturing. Operations Management Research, 1(2): 103–118.

PARRY, G.; BUSTINZA, O.F.; VENDRELL-HERRERO, F. (2012). Servitisation and value co-production in the UK music industry: an empirical study of consumer attitudes. International Journal of Production Economics, 135(1): 320–332.

VANDERMERWE, S.; RADA, J. (1988). Servitization of business: adding value by adding service. European Management Journal, 6(4): 314–324.

VARGO, S.; LUSCH, R.F. (2008). Service-dominant logic: continuing the evolution. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 36(1): 1–10.

WISE, R.; BAUMGARTNER, P. (1999). Go downstream: the new profit imperative in manufacturing. Harvard Business Review, 77(5): 133–141.

Printed edition of Intangible Capital Vol 8, No. 3 (Special Issue). Qualitative research in social science

2012-12-11T11:12:43+01:00

Content

Editorial

Open science, e-science and the new technologies: Challenges and old problems in qualitative research in the social sciences

Ercilia García-Álvarez,Jordi López Sintas

Articles

Decoding the agenda: An analytical model for manifest and latent knowledge of the public agenda
Jaime Andréu Abela

'Agony aunt, hostage, intruder or friend?'. The multiple personas of the interviewer during fieldwork

Valerie Caven

Voluntary disclosures of intangible assets and legitimization: The production industry of olive oil

Francisca Castilla-Polo

Printed edition of Intangible Capital Vol 8, No. 3, Special Issue: Qualitative research in social science, on Lulu

Until 19th December with a 25% discount

Intangible Capital: Dynamic Journal Issue

2012-06-03T10:45:13+02:00

Intangible Capital aims to facilitate and enhance research and professional career of our authors, implementing a new model of Dynamic Journal Issue designed to reduce the time of publishing those articles that meet the standards of the journal.

Through this system, and always faithful to Open Access policy, Intangible Capital will immediately publish accepted articles in our website, creating a new model of Dynamic Journal Issue, always open to new contributions, and skipping the usual waiting times in traditional publication systems. Thus, authors with accepted contributions will promptly see their articles being part of the current Dynamic Journal Issue of Intangible Capital. This system accelerates the impact of authors' contribution and also brings the possibility of referencing the article in future research as soon as it is accepted by our reviewers. Throughout this system we aim to promote the spread of knowledge, making our accepted and validated contributions available even before the issue closing.

Printed edition of Intangible Capital Vol 8, No. 2.

2012-05-14T14:09:05+02:00

Printed edition of Intangible Capital Vol 8, No. 2 on Lulu

Eight years of Intangible Capital: The challenge of its financing

2012-05-03T10:29:11+02:00

In early May it will be eight years since we editing Intangible Capital as an open access journal. We cannot hide our satisfaction for being pioneers in editing open access journals. The result of the efforts made by everyone (editors, reviewers and authors) make us proud. Effort that has allowed us to grow, but without losing the initial values, and specific goals that have marked the journal's editorial line, which distinguish it from other journals in the same area. Among them, we highlight our special orientation toward and attention to new writers and their first investigations or theoretical developments.

Within this growth, we are proud of announce, as we anticipated this year, our partnership with OmniaScience, which will contribute significantly to improving the quality of the journal. This collaboration enables publishers to focus only on scientific aspects, thus gaining a greater ability to cope with the increasing number of manuscripts received.

We are not exempt from the effects of drastic budget cuts in research in our country, widely criticized by the international scientific community. And the journal funding was not an easy issue since its inception. Our effort has focused on maintaining the journal open access under any circumstances, and to achieve the desired income in creative ways. However, for many years we have failed in that creativity, falling editorial costs in publishers’ own pockets.

Given the difficulty of finding private or public funding, most open access journals are opting to follow the author payment system. Obviously it is not the system we like most because it can be considered unfair, since does not take into account the economic situation of each country and researcher. This type of model is most widespread in areas of medicine, where the fees passed to authors are quite high. It is worth mentioning, though, that the vast majority of researchers of these areas have significant public or private resources to fund their research. In this case, the resources of the author payment do not come from the authors' own pockets, but from the public and private financing institutions. In this case, the author payment is grounded on the institutions that provide researchers funding and legitimacy.

But we do not forget that there is another side of the coin. We realize that not all researchers have adequate financial resources to conduct and publish research and that many of them fund it from their own pockets. We can say that from our experience, because for years we have experienced this situation ourselves. And we do not forget also that a unfavourable socio-economic situation in most countries and the exchange rates can make unaffordable a system of fixed fees of payment per article.

Analyzed the pros and cons of an author payment financing model, and considering the funding needs of the journal, we believe that the most fair model is an intermediate author payment system based on free donation. Instead of setting a fixed price per item we will accept donations by authors. From a practical standpoint, submitting articles for review to the journal will remain free, but if the article is accepted we will request a financial donation from the authors, consistent with the economic possibilities of researchers. Therefore donations are accepted from 1.00 € (valid for all articles submitted subsequent to April 30th.). Finally, responding in advance to possible criticism, we want to make it clear that the scientific and editorial team of the journal will continue working on the same line as it always has, with rigour and effort, irrespective of grants for researchers who wish to publish in Intangible Capital.

Printed edition of Intangible Capital Vol 8, No. 1.

2012-04-30T19:53:25+02:00

Printed edition of Intangible Capital Vol 8, No. 1 on Lulu

You can purchase copies with a 25% discount until 15th May.

Intangible Capital: Report papers and visits in 2011

2012-02-04T09:16:55+01:00

The report of 2011 in the first place we want to thank all the authors’ confidence in Intangible Capital and the excellent work done by the Editorial Board and all the reviewers...

http://www.omniascience.com/?p=616&lang=en

Printed edition of Intangible Capital Vol 7, No. 2.

2011-11-12T22:05:38+01:00

Printed edition of Intangible Capital Vol 7, No. 2 on Lulu

2010 SJR & Scopus Index

2011-06-27T08:59:14+02:00

SJR & Scopus has published 2010 impact factor. Authors who are interested can visit the web page http://www.scimagojr.com/index.php and http://www.scopus.com/

Regular Issue (Vol. 7 - No. 2)

2011-04-21T15:50:08+02:00

Next regular issue: October 2011

HTML format

2011-04-21T15:48:25+02:00

Now all the papers available in HTML format

Intangible Capital has been indexed in the scientific database CARHUS PLUS+

2011-04-15T12:22:12+02:00

From 2011 IC has been included in the database CARHUS PLUS+.

Intangible Capital has been indexed in the scientific database MIAR

2011-03-11T08:42:14+01:00

From 2011 Intangible Capital has been included in the database MIAR.

Special Issue: Qualitative Research in Social Sciences

2011-02-18T17:31:40+01:00

Special Issue on: Qualitative Research in Social Sciences

Area/Field: Social Sciences

Guest Editor

Name: Ercilia García-Álvarez
Affiliation: Universitat Rovira I Virgili de Tarragona
E-mail: mariaercilia.garcia@urv.cat

Name: Jordi López-Sintas
Affiliation: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
E-mail: jordi.lopez@uab.es

Languages: English, Castellano, Català

Description about the Special Issue:

Qualitative research traditions (e.g. discourse analysis, ethnography, grounded theory, mix methods, thematic analysis, case analysis, interpretative phenomenological analysis…) have a healthy provenance in some disciplines of social science and the arts, but have been neglected in others. The combining of ontologies and epistemologies (positivist, interpretative, postmodern) jointly with research traditions gives rise to both benefits and creative tensions, as well as promotes the debate about the nature of knowledge that qualitative research produces.

The aim of this Special Issue is to provide an international forum within which the disparate array of questions that arise about a pluralistic approach to qualitative research can foster a cross fertilization of research methods in the social sciences. We invite contributions from researchers working with any qualitative research methods that treat social issues in organizational contexts (health, psychology, organization, management, sociology, politics, consumption, education, arts, and humanities). We are interested in submissions that address a range of ontological, epistemological and practical issues in pluralistic qualitative research in the social sciences including, but not limited to, substantive contributions as well as methodological.

Subject Coverage:

Research on social issues in organizational contexts (health, psychology, organization, management, sociology, politics, consumption, education, arts, and humanities) framed in any of the qualitative traditions of enquiry

Authors’ guideline:

Authors should follow the guidelines of the Intangible Capital. The normal refereeing standards will apply. Our intention is to engage in a constructive dialogue with authors so that the final product will reflect the highest standards for research work in the topic of this special issue. The guest editors will be happy to answer any questions from potential authors. Authors can find more information in:
http://www.intangiblecapital.org/index.php/ic/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

Important Dates:

Deadline for submission of manuscripts: October 1, 2011

Acceptance/rejection notification: January 31, 2012

Revised manuscripts due: May 31, 2012

Publication Special Issue: December 2012

2009 Impact Factor

2010-12-19T09:55:05+01:00

IN-RECS has published impact factor of Spanish journals in social sciences 2009. Authors who are interested can visit the web page IN-RECS.

Impact Factor (2009): 0.160

Subject Category (Quartile): Economy (Q1), Psychology (Q3), Education (Q2).

Regular Issue (Vol. 7 - No. 1)

2010-11-27T10:10:31+01:00

Next regular issue: March 2011