In the knowledge economy, value creation increasingly depends not only on organizational capabilities, but also on how individuals strategically manage their own knowledge, competencies, experience, cognitive resources, and professional trajectories.
While most research in Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital has traditionally focused on organizations, firms, and institutional systems, this track shifts the analytical focus towards the individual as a strategic unit of value in the knowledge economy, capable of actively developing, governing, and leveraging his or her own intellectual capital across complex and knowledge-intensive environments.
This track aims at sharing and exchanging research results as well as theoretical or conceptual papers on how professionals, entrepreneurs, freelancers, patients, and knowledge workers manage their personal intellectual capital through self-directed learning, decision-making, and professional self-management.
Special attention is given to emerging challenges related to digitalization and artificial intelligence, exploring how individuals can enhance autonomy, agency, reflexivity, and responsibility in technology-mediated professional contexts.
Topics relevant for submissions include, but are not limited to the following:
- Conceptualization and measurement of Personal Intellectual Capital
- Self-management as a strategic human capital capability
- Personal knowledge management and individual knowledge ecosystems
- Professional autonomy and self-governance in knowledge-intensive work
- Self-managed careers and boundaryless professional trajectories
- Professionals as micro-organizations in the knowledge economy
- Entrepreneurial self-management and personal value creation
- Personal Intellectual Capital in healthcare and chronic disease contexts
- Empowered patients as knowledge agents
- Digitalization and AI-supported personal knowledge work
- Human-centered AI and professional decision-making
- Ethical and responsible professional autonomy
- Personal resilience and cognitive performance in complex environments
Track Chair
Marisol Hurtado Illanes
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
hurtadoillanes.m@gmail.com