Intellectual Capital Group

PMA - Intellectual Capital Group

The PMA IC Group is a global and multidisciplinary network of thought-leading academics and practitioners who jointly facilitate and participate in cross-disciplinary knowledge transfer in the area of measuring and managing intangible assets and intellectual capital. The aim of the PMA IC Group is to help raise the awareness of intangible assets as critical value drivers in today’s economy and actively engage in global cross-disciplinary knowledge transfer in this exciting field.

Intangible elements such as knowledge, image, relationships, or organizational culture have always been factors in the economy. Today, however, these intangible elements have moved from the periphery to the core of our modern economy. A recent survey commissioned by the consulting firm Accenture confirmed that most executives around the world believe that intangibles are critical for the future success of their businesses. However, at the same time, most of them agreed that their current approaches to measuring and managing intangibles were either poor or non-existent. A recent report by the Brookings Task Force on Intangibles outlined that the large and growing discrepancy between the importance of intangible assets to economic growth and the ability to clearly identify, measure, and account for those assets is a serious problem for business managers, investors, and governments.

The problem of measuring and managing intangibles is not confined to any particular discipline and spans many different fields including Accounting & Controlling, Strategy, HR, IT, Marketing, Finance & Economics, Law, Public Policy, and many more. Participants of the PMA IC Group therefore come from various disciplines and engage in a broad range of practical and theoretical projects addressing areas including:

Linking intangibles and organisational performance
Identifying the critical intangible value drivers
Measuring intangibles and intellectual capital
Reporting and disclosing of intangibles and intellectual capital
Managing intangibles and intellectual capital
Valuing organisations and their intangibles
Political and economical dimensions of intangibles and intellectual capital

PMA IC Symposia

In the years between the bi-annual PMA conferences, the PMA IC Group meets for a symposium. The aim of the PMA IC Symposium is to bring together the leading minds in the field of measuring and managing intellectual capital and intangible assets to share with each other the latest thinking and latest insights in this fast evolving and multi-disciplinary field. For more information, past delegates and pictures of the past two Symposia at the Stern School of Business, New York City and Cranfield School of Management, UK, please click here.

Recent Book by Members

After the first successful PMA IC Symposium many of the members agreed that there was a strong need for an inter-disciplinary book on ‘measuring and managing intellectual capital and intangible assets’. Many PMA IC group members have contributed to “Perspectives on Intellectual Capital”, which was published in 2005 by Elsevier.

Click here to find out more about this book, or Click on the book to link to Amazon to order this book

Group Members:

The PMA IC Group functions as a steering committee for the development, growth, and facilitation of knowledge transfer. The group is chaired by Bernard Marr. Current members of the group are all authorities in the field from a multitude of disciplines and countries:

Guy Ahonen, Swedish School of Economics, Finland
Verna Allee, Know Inc, USA
Debra Amidon, Entrovation International, USA
Daniel Andriessen, InHolland University, Netherlands
Max Boisot, ESADE, Spain and The Wharton School, USA
Nick Bontis, McMaser University, Canada
Per Nikolaj Bukh, Aarhus School of Business, Denmark
Jay Chatzkel, Progressive Practices, USA
Leandro Canibano, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Bino Catasus, Stockholm University, Sweden
Cristina Chaminade, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Eggert Claessen, PIP, Iceland
Juergen Daum , SAP AG, Germany
Steve Evans, Cranfield University, UK
Leif Edvinsson, School of Economics and Management, Sweden
Robert Grant, Georgetown University, Washington, USA
Karin Grasenick, Joanneum Research, Austria
James Guthrie, Sydney University, Australia
Richard Hall, Durham University, UK
Clive Holtham, Cass Business School, UK
Thomas Housel , Naval Postgraduate School, USA
Ulf Johanson, Uppsala University, Sweden
Mart Kivikas, Wissenskapital E&K GmbH, Germany
Baruch Lev, Stern School of Business, USA
Jon Low, CGE&Y, USA
Bernard Marr, Cranfield School of Management, UK
Sarah Mavrinac, INSEAD, France
Philip McPherson , City University London, UK
Jan Mouritsen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Patricia Ordonez de Pablos, University of Oviedo, Spain
Margaret Peteraf, Tuck School of Business, USA
Stephen Pike, Intellectual Capital Services, UK
Aino Poyhonen, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
Ante Pulic, Intellectual Capital Centre Zagreb, Croatia
Hanno Roberts, Norwegian School of Management, Norway
Göran Roos, ICS Ldt., UK
Robin Roslender, University of Stirling, UK
Hubert Saint-Onge, Know Inc, USA
Paloma Sanchez, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Harry Scarborough, Warwick Business School, UK
Giovanni Schiuma, University of Basilicata, Italy
David Snowden, IBM Cynefin Centre, UK
J. C. Spender, Cranfield School of Management, UK
Patrick Sullivan, ICMG, USA
Karl-Erik Sveiby, Swedish School of Economics, Finland
David Teece, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Jose Marti Viedma, Polytechnic of Catalonia, Spain
Anne Wu, National ChengChi University, Taiwan
Stefano Zambon, University of Ferrara, Italy

For more information about the PMA IC Group please contact:

Centre for Business Performance
Cranfield School of Management
Cranfield
Bedfordshire
MK43 0AL

Tel: 01234 754540

If you have any suggestions or comments for the organisers of the PMA please email us on pma@performanceportal.org. We would be pleased to hear from you.

The PMA is organised by the Centre for Business Performance, Cranfield School of Management
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